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Identity Crisis
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, June 30, 2005  |  06:27 PM

The Federal Trade Commission plays a leading role in the fight against identity theft. Now the head of the agency knows what it's like to be a victim. Newsweek reports that last week, Deborah Platt Majoras got a letter from DSW Shoe Warehouse saying that hackers had broken into the retailer's database and stolen her credit-card data, along with that of 1.4 million other customers.


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