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Identity theft

Someone uses your personal details to commit fraud. The cleanup outlasts the incident ticket.

Identity theft is the use of stolen personal details to commit crime, usually fraud. The harm can last years: credit, government services, and every account that trusted a reused password.

Unique secrets, MFA, care with personal information, and treating a data breach as a credential event. Individuals can start with IDCARE and their banks. Organisations still have APP 11 and NDB duties.

Fact source: ASD's ACSC glossary.