Data theft and identity theft are overshadowed only by the massive unemployment and underemployment that offshoring causes both in the UK and in the US. Incidents come to light as successful arrests occur in India, but our burning question pertains to the impact of unreported theft incidents - incidents that are occurring right now.

Highlights of Tania Sachdev's Article:

“Identity theft and data stealing is common among outsourcing companies and employees in India - watch out!
If you live in America or other parts of the world, watch out. Is you credit card company, bank, insurance and other vendors sending your data to India for processing - watch out - you may be for illegal sale through the crooks of Indian outsourcing companies.
According to media reports, the spectre of data theft returned to haunt the Indian BPO industry today with the arrest of four ex-employees of the Indian subsidiary of a US-based company on charges of siphoning off classified information causing loss of over Rs. three crore to the firm.”

Companies that are intoxicated with offshoring are too supercilious to regard any complaints. Therefore, countermeasures (besides legislation) need to focus on informing the offending company’s customers and the UK and US public.

Supporting URLs:

India's a small fry in BPO fraud game

Your Financial Secrets are Headed Overseas

Gartner Warns of Offshore ID Theft Risk

Horror of outsourcing to India - Indian call centers are illegally selling personal information of tens of thousand Australian customers

Alleged Data Theft in India Grabs Security Spotlight

Ex-IITian arrested for Delhi call centre data theft

No Complaints Filed over Data Theft in India
India Cannot Protect Personal Identity Theft
Concerns over Identity Theft in India
Investigators foxed by lack of evidence in BPO case

Supporting URLs from Antioffshore.org:

Allegations that Indian BPO is selling British citizen data

Mastercard - 40 Million Exposed to Fraud, India involved?

Something Hard to do Across National Borders

ONS Sends All our Identities to India