The Internet has mobilized the world’s information right at your fingertips.

Unfortunately, it means thieves don’t need to put on ski masks and carry automatics anymore. They can sit in their pajamas and tap on keys.

Your name, address, social security number and financial data are all there on the web, waiting for sinister surfers to find them. Social Security numbers go for about $50, to those who know where to look. And every retailer and card company wants nothing more than to issue you – or a reasonable facsimile of yourself – yet another credit card.
 

More than a headache, it’s a digital disaster.

Identity Theft is more than a headache. It’s a digital disaster. It can take hundreds of hours to clean up the wreckage of your credit and restore luster to your good name. Most stolen identities are used dozens of times before the victim discovers it, usually when they are turned down for a loan, or they receive a nice, friendly hello call from a collection agency.

Those thieves pretending to be you don’t fight fair, either. They prey on your children and older relatives just as readily as they prey on you and your spouse. It is a high tech crime in a high tech world, and pepper spray, police and 911 are powerless to stop it.

What can stop it? Nothing less than a fortress of security built around your identity. And that’s the business One You Security is in.

Robert Siciliano's Identity Theft Thought: Not long ago, someone purchased the social security numbers and home addresses of the Attorney General, Director of the CIA and Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission for $26.