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22, April 2008

It's no longer households and ordinary citizens who are being hit by identity thieves who steal personal data to set up bank accounts and take out loans in other people's names. Medical centres, universities and other institutions containing large amounts of personal data are being targeted, presumedly because the large concentration of data makes for easy pickings for the canny and determined hacker. It's only mid-April but already reports of more than 8.3 million records have been breached by hackers trawling for personal information used to set up bank accounts and to otherwise fraudulently use a person's data. Many of the data breaches occur through incidents such as laptops being stolen and access to the main database of an organisation being gained through normal processes.

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