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2024’s States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft & Fraud – WalletHub Study

December 6, 2023

With the recent MOVEit data breach impacting over 83 million individuals so far with an estimated cost of more than $13.7 billion, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2024’s States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft & Fraud.

To determine where Americans are most susceptible to fraud and identity theft, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 14 key metrics. The data set ranges from identity theft complaints per capita to the average loss amount due to fraud.

Overall Rank*  State Total Score  Identity Theft Rank  Fraud Rank  Policy Rank 
1 District of Columbia 74.96 5 2 1
2 Delaware 73.83 11 1 32
3 Florida 72.09 4 3 32
4 Nevada 70.91 6 4 19
5 Georgia 67.91 2 5 41
6 South Carolina 63.96 8 7 13
7 Maryland 62.85 1 17 37
8 California 61.70 3 11 41
9 Virginia 59.64 10 8 51
10 Texas 58.71 7 22 41
11 Alabama 58.59 19 9 13
12 North Carolina 58.21 13 16 19
13 New Jersey 56.77 20 19 3
14 Pennsylvania 56.69 27 12 3
15 Michigan 55.40 12 24 26
16 Mississippi 54.76 14 26 13
17 Arizona 54.30 24 13 48
18 Missouri 53.79 23 30 3
19 Hawaii 53.57 15 29 26
20 New York 52.70 22 23 41
21 Connecticut 52.26 16 32 32
22 Vermont 52.05 17 34 19
23 Tennessee 51.74 35 15 19
24 Louisiana 51.69 9 46 41
25 Massachusetts 51.65 18 41 3
26 South Dakota 51.61 39 10 3
27 Maine 51.53 21 36 13
28 Oregon 51.25 40 6 37
29 Utah 51.02 26 25 41
30 Minnesota 49.28 36 20 26
31 New Hampshire 49.09 34 28 13
32 Idaho 48.78 29 42 3
33 Colorado 48.62 38 18 19
34 North Dakota 48.50 45 14 3
35 Kentucky 48.15 28 39 19
36 Indiana 47.88 25 45 32
37 Nebraska 47.49 43 21 11
38 Washington 47.45 33 31 37
39 Ohio 46.76 30 47 13
40 Arkansas 46.74 31 33 48
41 West Virginia 46.63 32 49 1
42 Illinois 45.65 37 27 48
43 Wyoming 42.57 42 44 3
44 Wisconsin 41.98 46 37 11
45 Oklahoma 40.90 44 40 26
46 Alaska 40.38 48 35 26
47 Montana 40.20 41 43 41
48 New Mexico 39.25 49 38 19
49 Iowa 36.41 47 48 37
50 Rhode Island 30.13 50 50 32
51 Kansas 28.71 51 51 26

Note: *No. 1 = Most Vulnerable
With the exception of “Total Score,” all of the columns in the table above depict the relative rank of that state, where a rank of 1 represents the worst conditions for that metric category.

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