Identities Stolen in Seconds
Timothy O'Brien reports in the Sunday New York Times about the biggest case of identity theft ever uncovered in the United States.
Analysts say several factors have combined to make identity theft a particularly intractable crime: the growth of the Internet and digital finance, decades of expanding consumer credit worldwide, the hodgepodge nature of local and federal law enforcement, and the changing but often still inadequate regulations governing the credit industry.
Separately, Patrick Giblin reports in the Modesto Bee about some local incidents of identity theft and how the victims have been dealing with the issues.
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