Identity theft was on the rise last year, but nowhere so much as in Florida.
For every 100,000 people living in the state, 528 reported identity theft last year. Georgia was the only other state to come close to that number. The report notes that the rate of identity theft in Florida increased by at least 20% in six different cities.
More bad news for the Sunshine State: Six of the 10 cities seeing the biggest rises in identity theft were located in that state. Port St. Lucie was up 28%, Orlando and Miami saw a 24% increase, Tampa increased 23%, Lakeland jumped 21%, and Jacksonville was up 20%. (Baton Rouge, La. saw the biggest increase, climbing 55%.)
Miami didn’t see the biggest percentage increase, but it was still the city where identity theft was most common, with 903 reports per 100,000 people. (Atlanta was second, with a count of 690 per 100,000.)
Louisiana saw the biggest increase of any state, with identity thefts increasing 26% last year.
Stolen credit-card information is the most common form of identity theft, as 40% of all identity theft reports involve credit cards.
More recently, the Identity Theft Resource Center tracked 824 data compromises in the first quarter of 2025. That was slightly lower than the 841 in Q1 2024. The number of victims compromised this year in that time period, however, hit 91,344,628. In 2024, the Q1 total was just 28,596,892.
