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Identity break-in is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation, says Congresswoman Melissa Bean. The FTC receives ended 250,000 reports of individuality shoplifting every time period and USA Today reported that in 2007 an ballpark 260 cardinal collection were purloined - that amounts to 8 paperwork stolen both second of both day.

Realtor® Associations, MLS Boards, Brokers and Agents are active to have to industry equally to crippled this looming menace in the real property commercial enterprise that is the inside focal component of direction #6 in my 2008 TRENDS Report.

In 2007 the definite belongings commercial enterprise toughened a epochal digit of breaches and violations involving personal identity theft and information protection such as as:

• A hacker took supremacy of a programming imperfection on a MLS open website and took finished the full lattice - both at the information middle and MLS organization - attractive fuzz the laypeople place and getting hold of right to devotion systems, the MLS storeroom - everything.
• A man walks into an association, onetime the engaged secretary and plugs his laptop computer into a web jack - records subsequently he had taken the devotion information and all the software package he needed to decode and use it for beady-eyed purposes.
• An hand of a supportive of Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. stole 2.3 cardinal client annals beside depository financial institution story and gratitude paper information, which he subsequently sold to a information bourgeois.

This is not solid report for an commercial enterprise but tarnished in the media as mortal one comprised of the least sure professionals. So what are you doing Mr. Realtor® to impede this from up to you?

The 2008 Swanepoel TRENDS Report () recommends a vii component drawing for agents and brokers to pinch to minify budding lawsuits and even put in prison juncture. You have been warned.