Identity, Sold Forever
A credit card arrived in the mail that Ashley never applied for—the first sign that someone had opened accounts in her name: credit cards, phones, a line of credit, even a bank account. She reported it everywhere she could, but her fight for justice was met with a wall of complacency, one institution after another calling it a “victimless crime.”
Nurse’s Stolen Identity
A data breach at her hospital employer sat undetected for years—until Leslie logged in to file her taxes and found someone else’s bank details on her account. What came next: benefits frozen through the pandemic, a fraud charge for children she’d never had, and a small-town police force telling her that identity theft was out of their jurisdiction.
Patient’s Delayed Surgery
Her first surgery had gone wrong, leaving a life-threatening condition untreated and her heart failing. The follow-up procedure was postponed when a ransomware attack took the hospital’s systems down. As weeks stretched into months, her congestive heart failure worsened.