With the ever-so-handy-dandy internet, access to others’ personal information is easy, making the protection your own identity all the more difficult and all the more important.  Everything can go from handy-dandy to nightmare pretty quickly if you’ve ever been a victim of identity theft.  I was recently the victim of credit card fraud, and by a relative no less.  She decided it would be a fun joke to sign us up for an additional subscription to Netflix as well as a subscription to an adult content website.  Needless to say, we didn’t see the humor.  With relatives like that, who needs enemies, right?

Protecting your own identity aside, running an e-commerce site puts you in the driver seat of protecting the identity of every person that uses your site.  That’s a lot of personal and financial data and it’s a big responsibility when you think about it like that.  Geek Bouteek recently encountered an incident where we had to come to the rescue of some poor unsuspecting individuals whose ID’s were stolen in attempt to purchase our merchandise.  Now, we’re flattered that someone likes our shirts enough to try to place a few big orders, but we’re not flattered enough to let anyone do it at the expense of others.

We here at Geek Bouteek value our customers and our Rogue Nation readers and want you to know that we’re being vigilant in the battle against identity theft.   If you, or someone you know, have been a victim of Identity Theft, please read through the Federal Trade Commission’s instructions on how to recover and what steps to take:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/consumers/defend.html