Fraudsters traded 12 million pieces of personal data online between January and April this year, according to research.
The figure represents a threefold enlarge on 2010.
Credit-checking firm Experian, that constructed the figures, mentioned the enlarge was partly due to consumers having a flourishing number of online accounts.
Consumers right away have an median of 26 well-defined online logins but only 5 not similar passwords.
Experian mentioned many people were unknowingly their identity had been stolen until they were refused credit cards or mobile phone contracts.
It suggested people to change their passwords continually and make them more complex so they are harder for fraudsters to crack.
Two thirds of people have accounts they no longer use but have not closed down, leaving them vulnerable, the investigate found.
This was borne out final week when hackers pennyless in to Yahoo's servers and stole 450,000 passwords, many from gone accounts.
Those who had been victims of the flourishing situation of identity rascal suffered:
warding off of loans or credit cards (14%)
debts being run up in their name (9%)
warding off of mobile phone contracts (7%)
being chased by debt collectors for allowance they did not owe (7%)
Every week brings uninformed headlines about stolen IDs. Last week, to one side the Yahoo hack, it was revealed that one million user IDs had been stolen from the Android forum and graphics hardware creator Nvidia mentioned 400,000 passwords had been stolen from its forums.
This led Microsoft to exhibit that 20% of Microsoft account logins are found on lists of compromised qualifications as a outcome of hacks in to other websites.
Writing on the Microsoft blog, Eric Doer mentioned "These attacks gleam a spotlight on the core situation - people reuse passwords between not similar websites."
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