Sources such as the Non-profit Identity Theft Resource Center sub-divide identity theft into five categories:
• Criminal identity theft (posing as another person when apprehended for a crime)
• Financial identity … See more

Identity thieves typically obtain and exploit personally identifiable information about individuals, or various credentials they use to authenticate themselves, to impersonate them. Examples include:
• Using public records about individual citizens, published … See more

In their May 1998 testimony before the United States Senate, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) discussed the sale of Social Security numbers and other personal identifiers … See more

International
In March 2014, after it was learned two passengers with stolen passports were on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing on 8 March 2014. It came to light that Interpol maintains a database of 40 million lost and … See more

The acquisition of personal identifiers is made possible through serious breaches of privacy. For consumers, this is usually a result of them naively … See more

Identity theft is a serious problem in the United States. In a 2018 study, it was reported that 60 million Americans' identities had been wrongfully acquired. In response, under … See more

There is an active market for buying and selling stolen personal information, which occurs mostly in darknet markets but also in other See more