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"id": "2366123e55b24f2598f1b76403dce7bd",
"term": "identity theft",
"termId": "identity-theft",
"pronunciation": [
"ahy-den-ti-tee theft"
],
"wordNotesEpisode": 22,
"context": "According to Safe Smart living, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) processed roughly 445 thousand identity theft reports in 2018 which accounted for 15% of all fraud reports that year. The top ID Theft top type was credit card fraud. It turns out that you are more likely to have your identity stolen than your car taken or home burglarized. A third of ID Theft victims spend at least five months dealing with their case and lose an average of $10,000 in wages dealing with their cases.",
"nerdReference": "In the hacker movie favorite, The Net, that came out in 1995, Angela Bennett, played by Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock, is an Alfred Hitchcock-esq heroine, the innocent person wrongly accused. The bad guy, Jack Devlin, played by Jeremy Northam, gives her a police record through the manipulation of official government computer files which results in her losing her apartment.",
"definition": [
{
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"text": "The theft of a natural person's identity for purposes of fraud.",
"sentence": "The sad truth is that many senior citizens are sitting ducks for online fraud and identity theft."
}
],
"media": [
{
"type": "Audio",
"format": "mp3",
"source": "CyberWire",
"url": "https://theyberwire.com/audio/glossary/glossary-identity-theft.mp3"
}
],
"datePublished": "2020-08-07T22:05:45.040Z",
"dateModified": "2020-11-16T17:45:28.699Z"
}
}
}