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Georgetown University is committed to educating our community about the threats associated with identity theft. Identity theft is a criminal offense and it happens every day to unsuspecting people all over the world. Research from Gartner, Inc., a technology research and analysis firm, indicates that identity theft is a growing problem and that:

• 57 million adults in the United States believe they have received a fraudulent e-mail requesting personal information
• 1.78 million adults in the United States remember giving 'phishers' their sensitive financial or personal information by filling in a form on a 'spoof' website
• Nearly 1 million people have suffered from identity theft fraud ... costing banks and credit institutions $1.2 billion in direct losses
• If measures are not put into place to combat e-mail scams and online identity theft, consumer trust will erode and annual U.S. eCommerce growth will slow to 10% or less by 2007
• Already, 63 million U.S. adults pay their bills online

Visit this site often, we will update it with news, alerts and resources for our community.

News & Alerts

• Message from the Sr. VP regarding data security (1-30-08)
• Georgetown University Notifies Current and Former
  Students, Faculty and Staff of Data Breach (1-28-2008)
• Security Alert: Phishing (Scam) Email Claims to be GUASFCU (9-12-2006) 
• Recycling your computer? Don't just hand it over (8-09-2006) 
• Email Attacks Known as Phishing are on the Rise (7-10-2006)
• Georgetown University Computing Network Temporarily Disrupted (3-17-2006)
• Secret Service Investigates Computer Server Attack at Georgetown (3-03-2006)

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Report incidents of electronic abuse to UIS at abuse@georgetown.edu and spam may be forwarded to spam@georgetown.edu

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Updated May 20, 2008.