The cover story in the January/February of Fleet Maintenance Magazine touched upon the increasing cyber security risks.
To add some additional information, the profile of a typical identity thief is changing. So finds a study from the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP).
Published late last year, the study, An Analysis of Federal Case Data for the Years 2008 through 2013, found that of the offenders convicted, the vast majority were convicted on charges of “Identity Theft” (89.1 percent). In terms of frequency, this was followed by offenders convicted on charges of “Bank Fraud” (22.6 percent) and “Tax Fraud” (16.7 percent).
The highest percentage of offenders from a single state was from Florida; second was California.
The study also revealed that more identity criminals were found to be operating as part of criminal groups rather than by themselves. This is a change from CIMIP’s previous study.
Just under two thirds (63.6 percent) of offenders were found to commit their criminal acts in collaboration with other offenders and 36.4 percent were classified as committing their crimes alone.
In the earlier study, 42.4 percent teamed with other criminals to commit their acts as part of a criminal group while the majority (57.6 percent) operated alone.
The complete study can be found here.