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UNCLASSIFIED CONCLUSION (U) SNS, webpages, email accounts, (U) Malicious people need only a and wireless access points are limited amount of personal infor- all vulnerable to identity theft and mation to steal or manipulate their information aggregation. Adver- victims' identities. For example, saries include hackers, foreign they can use the Forgot Your intelligence agents,terrorists, Password?"feature available on criminals, and pedophiles. They most SNS to gain access to many target individuals and their family, of their victim's online accounts. friends,neighbors,and coworkers This feature typically requires According to the Bureau of Justice the user to answer three security statistics, an estimated 8.6 million questions before regaining access households had at least one per to the site. If the answers to these son 12 or older who were victims security questions cannot be found of identity theft. The Federal Trade on the user's profile, then the per- Commission estimates that as petrator can use social engineering many as nine million Americans (via SNS chat) to contact the victim have their identities stolen each or his/her family members and year. solicit the desired information. (U) FBI personnel should protect (U) Don't become a victim; protect themselves and the FBI by limiting yourself and your family from the amount of personal informa- online predators. Take advantage tion posted on SNS. Monitor your of the security and privacy settings children's use of SNS:know who on the sights you trequent the they are talking to and what they most.Remember that the adver- are talking about, and become sary is in search of an easy target familiar with the privacy settings to exploit. on SNS.Remember that once you post information on the Internet, it (U) For additional information, contact will be there forever.. the FBI OPSEC Support Staff. UNCLASSIFIED 17