True cost of identity theft

Robert — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 08:58:21 GMT

Hi

Does anyone have any good sources of information on the human cost of identity theft?

Robert

Re: True cost of identity theft

Early_Adopter — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:02:15 GMT

Well, good is highly subjective but there are sources of information.

I guess one of the problems is which identity and where was it applied? Here's a couple of thoughts that might get you closer to metrics.

So for enterprise you might try to look at Larry Ponemon's Cost of a Data Breach and attribute what amount were caused by theft of identity:

For consumer, Symantec Lifelock seems to have commissioned the best/longest running study into this:

Experian has a study but no info on sample size:

Lastly, Equinfax has given us the biggest real world study by a practitioner*...

* sorry, cheap shot I know, but I couldn't resist.