Swiped:How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves

Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life.  This doesn’t mean there’s no hope.  Your identity may get stolen, but it doesn’t have to be a life-changing event.  In our summary of Swiped, consumer advocate and identity fraud expert Adam Levin provides a method to help you keep hackers, phishers, and spammers from becoming your problem.

Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life.  We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam filters, and those are good ideas as far as they go.  But with the breaches of huge organizations like Target, AshleyMadison.com, JPMorgan Chase, Sony, and even the US Office of Personnel Management, more than a billion personal records have already been stolen, and chances are good that you’re already in harm’s way.

This doesn’t mean there’s no hope.  Your identity may get stolen, but it doesn’t have to be a life-changing event.  In our summary of Swiped, consumer advocate and identity fraud expert Adam Levin provides a method to help you keep hackers, phishers, and spammers from becoming your problem.

With a clear-headed, practical approach, this summary is your guide to surviving the identity theft epidemic and protecting yourself, your identity, and your sanity.