Online Identity Theft and Data Breach for Businesses

di Steve Polyakov
Identity theft is defined as “unauthorized use of another persons’ name or identification such as image, social security number, credit card number, voter identification information, address or any other identifying association.” [1] A data breach is, “the loss, theft, or other unauthorized access, other than those incidental to the scope of employment, to data containing sensitive personal information, in electronic or printed form, that results in the potential compromise of the confidentiality or integrity of the data.[2] “Identity theft occurs when perpetrators hack into company computers and perform and steal clients’ confidential and personal information.” In 2018, over 2. . .