identity theft victim
Stolen credentials sufferer
A person whose personal information—Social Security number, credit card details, bank accounts—has been stolen and used fraudulently by someone else.
The term emphasizes the human cost of the crime: damaged credit, financial losses, and the lengthy process of reclaiming one's identity.
She spent months disputing charges after becoming an identity theft victim.
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- stolenTaken unlawfully
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
- credit scoreNumerical measure of borrower reliability
- hackedGained unauthorized access
dark web · scam · vulnerable · helpless · violated · nightmare · bank · bank account · accounts · passwords · phishing · compromised · personal information · stress · recovery · documents · Social Security · report
- scam victimsdupe, mark
- victimscasualty, survivors, fatality, casualties, sufferer
- victimologyvictimology, revictimization, vulnerable populations, trauma recovery, complainant
identity theft victimidentity thief
One who steals credentials
fraudster · scammer · cybercriminal · phisher · hacker
identity, theft, victim, identical, identically, identify, identification, identifiable, unidentifiable