Data Breach Notifications and Identity Theft, 2021

• NCJ Number: 307824
• Author(s): Erika Harrell, PhD, BJS Statistician
• Date Published: January 2024
• Publication Series: Just the Stats
• Publication Type: Publication

Description

This web report presents data on persons age 16 or older who were notified that an entity with their personal information experienced a data breach. It also provides details on the types of identity theft that victims experienced. Data are from the 2021 Identity Theft Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey.