Report: Child ID theft on the rise

Posted: Friday, April 1 2011 at 03:53 am CT
by Bob Sullivan

Child ID theft, among the more tragic and vexing 21st Century crimes, is much more common than previously thought, suggests a report being published Friday by a Carnegie Mellon University fellow.

Data examined by Richard Power, a distinguished fellow at the school’s CyLab research center, offers hints that identity thieves are specially targeting children when picking victims.

"They make perfect targets because they have no records and don’t discover the crime for years,â€