anything public, but still somehow you find it which tells me you can find others. well, yeah. it s basically information brokerage databases. they sell this information usually for investigations, to investigate fraud or for doing anything in the course of business and this information is bought and sold. so the information is already out there. it doesn t take much to gain access to these databases. usually access to the internet and a credit card and paying your bill on time. the searches are super cheap and it makes it really easy for identity thiefs to steal your identity and you have to be vigilant at checking your credit reports and checking your credit card statements and signing up for some sort of theft protection service and really being vigilant in protecting your identity because it is so easy for a fraudster to steal it. i m on twitter, and i m on facebook. i have two facebook accounts and
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time for our free for all, and it s all about protecting your privacy. the more wired we all get, the more opportunities there are for someone to steal your identity. steven is the ceo of identity truth in boston. he joins me now. thank you so much for being here. good morning, stephanie. thank you very much. so tell you, you say the one place we all tend to go to, most of us have social networking sites we go to all the time. you re saying that s the number one place we can get our ids stolen. explain. absolutely. as millions of people share information on social networking sites like facebook, myspace, et cetera, there is a wealth of information that is being exchanged daily. people provide their name, social security numbers, addresses, dates of births, and all of this provides countless opportunities for identity thiefs to harvest this information and create fake identities at the detriment of the original individual. people put their social security numbers on their social
they have been incidents where that has happened and they say something that people should not do that it s a very dangerous thing to do. you also say that losing our cell phone or pda could be the least of our concerns if you put too much information on that device, right? yes. as smart phones become smarter and we have all kinds of personal devices with us, obviously most of us store a lot of very interesting data, personal and private data on our phones such as addresses, but most importantly our passwords to our e-mail, pin numbers, et cetera. if we lose these devices it s very easy for a thief to extract this information and profit at the detriment of the owner of the device. there s research that shows, stephanie, over the last year twice as much as personal devices have been stolen giving countless opportunities to identity thiefs. so we definitely need to be diligent about that. also for women when they get married, they need to make a