{"id":54,"date":"2024-05-16T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2026-11-14T10:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:15:51","slug":"identitytheft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/identitytheft\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Definition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Identity theft is defined as the fraudulent acquisition and use of a person&#8217;s private identifying information, usually for financial gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Adapted from:&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/identity-theft\">https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/identity-theft<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10 Steps for Students to Avoid Being a Target of Identity Theft\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0mXRJ3jLv24?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Adapted from:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0mXRJ3jLv24\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0mXRJ3jLv24<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Identity Theft Infographic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"2342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image-4.jpeg\" alt=\"Identity Theft Infographic\" class=\"wp-image-56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image-4.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image-4-164x300.jpeg 164w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image-4-560x1024.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image-4-768x1405.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image-4-839x1536.jpeg 839w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image-4-1119x2048.jpeg 1119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Adapted from:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfico.com\/credit-education\/identity-theft\">https:\/\/www.myfico.com\/credit-education\/identity-theft<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition Identity theft is defined as the fraudulent acquisition and use of a person&#8217;s private identifying information, usually for financial gain. Adapted from:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/identity-theft Video Identity Theft Infographic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}