Korean sites were also inundated by hackers, presumably after valuable identities.
This, in fact, is what makes a useless-seeming watch potentially more valuable — in identity terms — than, say, regular jewelry.
Facebook can be especially valuable for identity thieves, particularly when a user's birth date is visible to the public.
Social Security numbers are particularly valuable to identity thieves because they act as crucial personal identifiers in dealing with banks and other financial institutions.
The social platforms hold valuable cards (identity, affinity clouds, content gateways) but face commoditization and the threat of fragmentation of the realtime market by threatened incumbents (Murdoch, Microsoft, Google).
Today, every bit of personal information is valuable to identity thieves.
Frozen defied its fairytale template by swerving into matters of sisterhood, Big Hero 6 pulled off a clever trans-Pacific cultural fusion, and this year's excellent Zootopia was both a snappy, original comedy and a valuable primer in identity politics.
"Even one handful of mail can yield lots of valuable information to an identity thief".
State-sponsored hackers are out there, but for the most part they are content with going after softer and more valuable targets such as identity databases and financial information.
