Watch the 2023 Trends in Identity Report webinar by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). Highlights from the report include: In 2023, the ITRC saw a 16-percentage-point decrease in the number of reported identity crimes (compromise, theft and misuse) compared to 2022. Overall reports of scams to the ITRC decreased by 18 percentage points in 2023 from the prior year. However, job scams increased by 118 percentage points. While down by 16 percentage points compared to 2022, Google Voice scams remained the top scam reported to the ITRC. Download the ITRC’s 2023 Trends in Id ..read more

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What is Cy Pres? Courts use the doctrine of cy pres to award unclaimed or impractical-to-distribute funds from class action settlements to appropriate charitable organizations as the “next best” way to advance the core interests of the underlying class members.  Support the ITRC with Cy Pres Awards As the leading voice for U.S. identity crime victims since 1999, the ITRC accepts cy pres1 awards to further the mission to empower and guide consumers, victims, businesses and governments to minimize risk and mitigate the impact of identity compromise and crime. The ITRC’s services for consume ..read more

Effective February 15, 2024 The following is the live chat privacy policy for the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). This policy is supplemental to the ITRC’s Privacy Policy.  Your privacy is important to us.  The ITRC maintains a strict privacy policy that governs how we obtain, use and store information from the people who visit our website, live chat messaging service and contact center. To review our full Privacy Policy, visit www.idtheftcenter.org/privacy-policy/ The policy outlined here applies specifically to the use of the Live Chat service found on our website. In ..read more

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Watch the 2023 Business Impact Report webinar by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The ITRC’s 2023 Business Impact Report shows that cybersecurity incidents targeting small businesses reported were a record-high in the three-year history of the BIR. Despite the record number of attacks, confidence in defense is up 15 percentage points from 2022. Download here: https://idtheft.center/2023BIR Speaker: James E. Lee, ITRC Chief Operating Officer For more information, visit: https://www.idtheftcenter.org/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IDTheftCenter  The post 2023 Bus ..read more

The way individuals use, maintain, protect, and recover their identities varies due to different factors, including cultural influences and language barriers. The ITRC seeks to understand identity crimes in Asian communities and address the challenges experienced by identity theft victims who are members of San Diego’s Asian communities by providing culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate resources.  Based on information self-reported by victims to the ITRC, some of the identity crimes in Asian communities include scams that expose personal information, specifically the Googl ..read more

Watch the 2023 Consumer Impact Report Webinar by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The ITRC’s 2023 Consumer Impact Report looks at the emotional, physical and practical effects on the day-to-day lives of victims, including lost opportunities. According to the report, 16 percent of ITRC victims surveyed reported thoughts of suicide, up from ten (10) percent in 2022 and eight percent in 2021. Download the 2023 Consumer Impact Report webinar by the Identity Theft Resource Center here: idtheftcenter.org/publication/2023-consumer-impact-report/ Speaker: Eva Velasquez, ITRC President & ..read more

Planning is already underway for the ITRC’s 2024 Identivation Summit supported by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.  We want to ensure the agenda includes sessions that are informative, thought-provoking, and actionable. Even though the conference isn’t until May, 2024, now’s the time to identify topics and speakers that attendees want to hear. Please take a moment to complete this brief questionnaire: Click here. The post Thank You! appeared first on ITRC ..read more

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