and one of your greatest risks is private information, information as simple as your birthplace could put your identity at risk. and is this why. internet crime costs have doubled. check out these numbers, we went from $265 to $595 for internet crimes. this is scary. last year, two researchers say they were able to predict millions of social security numbers based solely on your full name, birthplace and birth date. the social security administration says we shouldn t be worried about the research, but they worried enough to change the way social security numbers are actually assigned. and this just this past month, netflix dropped a contest to help the company better identify customer preferences. it was a follow-up contest to one that netflix did a couple years ago. they posted customer ratings that they said had been stripped of all customer identification. but two researches were able to identify some of the customers, simply by linking large