According to Steve Lapppenbusch, Ph.D., of LexisNexis Risk Solutions:
“An identity is stolen every three seconds–adding up to about 27,000 per day. In 2012, more than 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft. Furthermore, there have been a record number of security data breaches in recent years that have exposed more than 822 million records, compromising individuals’ personal information such as name, Social Security number (SSN) or bank account. The likelihood that at some point in our lives each of us will fall victim to a data breach or identity theft is alarmingly high.”