 Protecting your identity is a must. One way to make sure your identity is safe is to keep track of your credit cards. Well the first thing I would recommend is you don't want to carry all your credit cards with you. Only carry the ones that you actually want to use. That way if you lose your wallet or things like that you don't have to deal with 10 or 11 credit cards. You want to check your statements and your billing daily. If you use it a lot, at least weekly. And scrutinize every purchase. The new thing with the hackers is when they scam your information they'll send a charge through for under a dollar. A lot of people may see that on their statement and just regard it or blow it off. What happens is once that charge goes through it tells them that the account is open and active and then they begin to make other purchases. Large dollar amount purchases.