FTC: ID theft surges in '08

The Federal Trade Commission received over 300,000 ID theft complaints in 2008, an increase from about 250,000 in 2007. ID theft was the biggest complaint received by the agency, and represented 26 percent of all the complaints it received in 2008. Another surprise in the 2008 statistics is that twenty-somethings are most likely to get hit with ID theft.

For more on this growing problem:
- check out this ZDNet.com article

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