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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.
