Identity Protection

ID Theft Statistics

Every 79 seconds a thief steals someone’s identity, opens accounts and makes fraudulent purchases.

Identity Safeguards has never failed to restore a victim’s identity back to pre-theft status.

Over 25% of reported identity theft victims know the thieves who steal their identity.

Studies show that up to 70% of all identity theft cases begin within the workplace.

Over 85% of identity theft victims did not know that they were victims until they were denied credit or employment.

Only 56% of victims in America were able to retrieve their losses in 2006, down from 80% in 2005.

“Identity theft is now passing up drug trafficking as the number one crime in the nation...”
-US Department of Justice, 2006

Over 100 million Americans were affected by corporate losses of confidential information in 2006.