Identity theft hits 9.9M people last year
I'm not surprised. When it has become so darn easy to get so much information online on anyone this was bound to happen. According to this AP story in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required):
More than 27 million people have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, costing them $5 billion and businesses and financial institutions almost $48 billion, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.
The FTC released a survey showing that in the last year alone, 9.9 million people were victims of identity theft.