Citation[]
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection, Technology Supervision Branch), Putting an End to Account-Hijacking Identity Theft (Dec. 14, 2004) (full-text)..
Overview[]
This study focused on a subset of identity theft that is of particular concern to financial institutions insured by the FDIC and to the institutions' customers: unauthorized access to and misuse of existing asset accounts primarily through phishing and hacking, referred to as "account hijacking."