Case 1: You believe that your identity has been compromised and is being used to initiate commercial transactions (purchases, credit accounts, etc)

Case 2: You believe that your identity has been compromised and is being used to claim your Illinois and U.S. tax refund.

Case 3. You believe your 11 year old relative has formed an online relationship with predator.

Case 4. You run a small business out of your home and one morning you start up your computer to find a notice on the screen that you must pay a ransom in BitCoin in order to recover your client files that are now all encrypted.

Case 5. Your doctor is selling medical records for targeted advertising

Case 6. You are employed at BigBoxStoresAreUs and you learn that, to make telecommuting easier for the accounting staff, full customer credit records can be accessed using a "secret" code on the company's public, insecure Web site. [ and no one at BigBoxStoresAreUs cares]

Case 7. A group of unknown individuals starts a campaign of posting defamatory information, (some partially true but completely distorted, and mostly fictitious) in various locations on the Internet, damaging your personal relationships, your emotional health, and even your employment status.

Determine what government or other agency(ies) you would contact or turn-to in the cases. For each case please indicate:

which agency(ies) you found (Their names and URLs)That bear some responsibility for problem domain and That you should be contacting

what level of government they represent (local, state, federal)

how they can be contacted (phone, email, etc.)

whether they facilitate a response or only reporting

your expected speed of a response

any corporate agencies that might help

any not-for-profit agencies that might help

What you could do to help yourself