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Retailers and rewards programs don’t actually need to scan a copy of your driver’s license, so don’t let them.
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 3,205 data compromises last year involving more than 353 million victims, a record high in the United States, a 78 percent increase over 2022. In 2013, Target’s computer system was breached, allowing criminals to access to steal credit and debit card information from as many as 40 million consumers. And, to be fair to the companies, con artists and hackers work full time, sometimes with the help of foreign governments, to outsmart corporate security systems.
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