It doesn't matter how careful you are in protecting your personal information.  Your personal sensitive data is everywhere.  Be our guest and spend a few minutes browsing our Best Links below for true life stores of people wrongly arrested, huge data breaches, and how people are using a credit freeze to protect themselves.  If you don't think it can happen to you, ask the 8.1 million Americans last year who were victms, if they thought it couldn't happen to them.

Best Links

ABC News.com - Criminals selling your sensitive info on the Web (click on and watch the Video)

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Deter Detect Defend ID Theft Video

NPR - Color of Money: Protecting Credit from Thieves (01/08/08) Audio

Identity Theft Resource Center - 2008 Data Breach Report (e.g., MTV, Harvard) PDF

Consumers Reports - Credit Freezes (What they are and How they Work) PDF

eCreditFreeze, LLC - In the News

PRWeb - 67% of Americans Missing Out on Easy Opportunity to Prevent ID Theft (3/3/08)

eCreditFreeze - Comments submitted to FTC on industry Credit Freeze practices (2/22/08)

Corporate Wire - eCreditFreeze, LLC Press Release (1/29/08)

Recent Newspaper Artcles

San Francisco Chronical - Identity for Sale Online; A question of When, not If (4/11/08)

WSJ - How Job Hunters can Protect Themselves Against ID Theft (01/22/08)

WashingtonPost.com - Identity Theft Gets Personal (01/13/08)

Forbes.com (Associated Press) - FTC Seeks Comments on Credit Freezes (1/10/08)

WSJ - Data Security Breaches Reach Record High in 2007 (12/31/07)

CreditCards.com - Survey: Most Don't Know What a Credit Freeze is (12/12/07)

The Albuquerque Tribune - ID Theft Lands Wrong Man in Jail for 6 Days (11/3/07)

USA Today - To Freeze or Not Freeze Your Credit (10/9/07)

Reference sites

General Identity Theft Statistics

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - Identity Theft

Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) from Wikipedia

FTC - 2006 Identity Theft Survey Report

FTC - 2003 Identity Theft Survey Report

Identity Theft Resource Center®, Nonprofit Organization

HowStuffWorks - How Identity Theft Works
AARP - Block Your Credit Reports to Prevent ID Theft