Do you owe student loans? Protect your information from student debt scammers

Most of us will incur some type of student loan debt by the time we graduate from law school. Depending on the professional path we choose, it may take more than a decade to be debt free. Today, student debt in the United States amounts to more than $1.5 trillion, which has made this lending industry a desirable target for cyber threats. With more than 44 million Americans having at least one student loan, scammers do not have much trouble identifying borrowers. A study conducted by the American Bar Association Task Force on Financing Legal Education in 2015 reported approximately 90 percent of graduates borrowed money. Since law school is among the professional programs where students need to borrow the most money – and lawyers are reportedly taking longer than other borrowers to pay back loans – law graduates are more susceptible to being targeted by cyber threats and scams.    Keeping our personal information safe may seem like a daunting task in times…

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