Study: ID theft usually an inside job http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5015565 Up to 70 percent of cases start with employee heist By Bob Sullivan Technology correspondent MSNBC Updated: 7:03 p.m. ET May 21, 2004 A soon-to-be-released study reveals what some identity theft experts have hinted at for years -- the crime is largely the work of insiders. In a study of more then 1,000 identity theft arrests in the United States, Michigan State professor Judith Collins has discovered that perhaps as much as 70 percent of all identity theft starts with theft of personal data from a company by an employee. ... snip ... this isn't inconsistent with earlier studies claiming that general fraud tended to be 90 percent insiders. posting related to internet payments ... and security proportional to risk http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#61 part of the issue is the excessive amount of identity &/or static shared-secret information laying about in authentication infrastructures .... making the infrastructure vulnerable to identity theft, or other kinds of impersonation and/or replay attacks. -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
