Table of Content
Exclusive Summary………………………………………………………………..1
1. Introduction………………………………………………………………….…...1
2. Theory and Concept……………………………………………………….…. .3
3. Key Findings……………………………………………………………………..4 3.1 Issues of Online Identity Theft …………………………………………...4 3.2 Trends of Online Identity Theft……………………………………………5
4. Case Study………………………………………………………………………..7 4.1 Background…………………………………………………………………..8 4.2 Analysis……………………………………………………………………….8
5. Recommendations and Conclusions……………………………………..…9

Executive Summary
Identity theft make a lot of customers and organisations suffer serious loss both financially and emotionally. It is necessary to build acknowledge of identity theft to protect the interest of customers and organisations. This report finds the different methods and trends of identity theft and gives some advices for protection. A case study of TJX breach case shows the harm of identity theft in an organisation.

1. Introduction
The internet technology has greatly changed the world in which human live since 1990s. Nowadays, internet has gone deep into people’s daily life and its high productivity, efficiency and convince make people deeply rely on it. Online business and social network have become the most important contributions of internet. As the growth of e-commerce and number of users of social networking websites, the target of identity theft has broadened. In e-commerce, identity theft threats not only the customers’ information and property safety but also the interest of corporate. On the social networking websites such as Facebook, users usually use their real e-mail address, education background and friends. When these details are used by attacker to target and spam (Bilge, Strufe, Balzarotti, Kirda., 2009). The identity theft is a big threat of information safety.

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