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Florida led the nation in identity theft reports last year. For the first time since 2021, the nation saw an increase in identity theft. Louisiana saw the biggest increase of any state. So far in 2025, the number of data compromises is down, but the number of victims has more than tripled.
Identity theft was on the rise last year, but nowhere so much as in Florida.
A new report from All About Cookies, analyzing data from the Federal Trade Commission, says identity theft reports were up 9% last year, the first nationwide increase since 2021. And Florida saw the heaviest activity among scammers.
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.
This story was originally featured on Fortune.com
