The year in security, identify theft and fraud

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Dec 22, 20151 min

There’s a lot we can say about cybersecurity, identify theft and fraud in 2015, but we’re going to let our infographic tell the story.

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We all like to talk about security, but sometimes words can’t tell the whole the story. That’s especially true in the case of cyber-threats, identify theft and fraud. It’s a numbers game. And as you’ll see, users weren’t the winners in 2015.

To paint a picture of 2015, we asked CIO.com contributor Jen A. Miller to comb through the headlines and industry reports to uncover on how hackers, scammers and thieves got the best of us.

Rather than ramble on, we decided to let the numbers do the talking Check out our infographic below (and you can also download the PDF).