According to the Secret Service, cyber crimes are growing at an alarming rate. Children tend to download music and other filesharing programs off the web all the time. What parents don’t realize is that thieves can use these downloads to steal your identity from your computer. Your online shopping, copies of your tax returns, and more.

Todd Davis, LifeLock CEO, was consulted to discuss the harm that these filesharing programs cause. LifeLock staff were able to find copies of hundreds of tax returns online, unknowingly to the tax payers. These returns contain names, social security numbers and refund information. Thieves stole the tax return of a family interviewed. There is also a short segment where secret service agents have found credit card information online.

View the 5 minute, information packed story here: MSNBC Today Show – Identity Theft

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