About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: Art theft, Baby Jesus theft, Beach theft, Black-bag cryptanalysis, Book store shoplifting, Booster bag scam, Breaking bulk (law), Brigandage, Cable theft, Capital theft, Central Equipment Identity Register, Civil recovery demands, Construction equipment theft, Crime in California, Data theft, Dine and dash, Disappeared statues in Tehran, 2010, Document theft, Dognapping, Electronic article surveillance, Embezzlement, False pretenses, Felony petty theft, Fence (criminal), Footpad, Foundation E.G. Buhrle, Furtum, Garbage theft, Gasoline theft, Grand theft, Handling stolen goods, Hotel thief, Identity theft, Identity Theft Resource Center, Integrated register surveillance, Laptop theft, Larceny, List of bank robbers and robberies, List of famous stolen paintings, Manhole cover theft, Medal theft, Metal theft, Newspaper theft, Organized retail crime, Panty raid, Possession of stolen goods, Postgraduate Certificate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection, Refund theft, Retail loss prevention, Shopkeeper's privilege, Shrinkage (accounting), Snatch theft, Steaming (crime), Stolen and missing moon rocks, StopLift, Store detective, Stouthrief, Street sign theft, Sweethearting, Taxation as theft, Theft by finding, Theft from Interstate Shipment, Theft of electricity, Theft of fire, Theft of services, United States Trust Company theft, You shall not steal. Excerpt: Identity theft is a form of stealing someone's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person's name. The victim of identity theft (here meaning the person whose identity has been assumed by the identity thief) can suffer adverse consequences if they are held accountable for the perpetrator's actions. Identity theft occurs when someone uses another's personally identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes. The term identity theft was coined in 1964 however it is not literally possible to steal an identity-less ambiguous terms are identity fraud or impersonation. "Determining the link between data breaches and identity theft is challenging, primarily because identity theft victims often do not know how their personal information was obtained," and identity theft is not always detectable by the individual victims, according to a report done for the FTC. Identity fraud is often but not necessarily the consequence of identity theft. Someone can steal or misappropriate personal information without then committing identity theft using the information about every person, such as when a major data breach occurs. A US Government Accountability Office study determined that "most breaches have not resulted in detected incidents of identity theft." the report also warned that "the full extent is unknown." A later unpublished study by Carnegie Mellon University noted that "Most often, the causes of identity theft is not known," but reported that someone else concluded that "the probability of becoming a victim to identity theft as a result of a data breach is ... around only 2%." More recently, an association of consumer data companies noted that one of the largest data breaches ever, accounting for over four million records, resulted in only about 1,8
