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Up For Grabs: Taking Charge of Your Digital

Identity Study

of adults have noticed fraudulent charges on their creditor debit card, yet few (15%) have ordered a security freezeon their credit.

Digital Identity Knowledge

47%

Online Access to Bank and Credit Card Accounts

73% of adults FAILED an 8-question quiz on their digital

identity knowledge (answering half or fewer questionscorrectly).

for more than one online account.

Same Password

of their credit card

Security experts recommend people take three steps to protect their digital identity:freeze their credit, set up online access to their bank and credit card accounts, anduse unique passwords for all of their online accounts.

57%

all

of credit card holders have online access to accounts; 21% have not set up online access to any of their credit

card accounts.

Digital Identity Knowledge

(Internet Users Age 18+)

50%

Nearly

of adults have used the same password

of their bank accounts;

43%

Only

all

of adults have online access to 17% have not set up online access to any of their bank accounts.

Fraudulent Charges

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26419/res.00228.045

Contact: Doug Shadel, [email protected]; [email protected] for media inquiries

https://www.aarp.org/upforgrabs

Up for Grabs: Taking Charge of Your Digital Identity: AARP National Survey of Internet Users Age 18+,

Source:

August 2018.