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Tips for Keeping Your Travels Identity Theft FreeBusiness trips are stressful enough without a side of identity fraud.

ByBeverly Harzog

This story appears in theJune 2014issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

There's no question that business travel can help your company take off. But unless you take care with your credit cards while on the road, your identity could go off on its own trip. In fact, there was a new victim of identity fraud every two seconds last year, according to the 2014 Identity Fraud Report by Javelin Strategy & Research, and one in three consumers who received notice of a data breach became a victim of fraud.

One need only look at recent news reports for proof, from the massive Target hacking to one that hit a little closer for traveling 'treps, the breach at hotel operator White Lodging (which manages 168 properties for brands such as Marriott).

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