Stories about hacker attacks grab headlines, but the actual incidence is way down. Identity theft, however, is another matter

With a computer-security breach involving 40 million credit cards grabbing headlines, it would be easy to assume that this kind of fraud is on the rise. But while such a volume of compromised data is alarming, the fact remains that credit-card fraud has actually been falling, industry experts say.

JUNE 21, 2005

NEWS ANALYSIS
By Robert Berner and Adrienne Carter

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