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Which leads us to cyber crime
But. All of those bits and pieces of our digital selves sloshing around online also present risk. People with bad intentions are able to misuse our online data and have made cyber crime big
business as well. Damages attributed to cyber crime cost billions of dollars every year. Data breaches expose hun- dreds of millions of online accounts to potentially criminal exploitation. Every
CYBER CRIMINALS LOVE YOUR DATA. HERE'S WHY.
Bad guys online don’t care so much about kids themselves IRL—but they do love kids’ data. That’s because kids usu-
history attached to their data. With a full set of real-person data and no financial history attached, criminals can do all sorts of fraudu-
8 KIPLINGER’S PERSONAL FINANCE 03/2021 ally have no financial PAGE 8 ➜ OUTSMART CYBERTHREATS
