2015 Event Hackers steal personal data for about 100,000 taxpayers after breaking into a U.S. Internal Revenue Service system that allows taxpayers to retrieve previous tax returns; the data can be used to file tax refund claims and commit identity theft 2015 Event Hackers steal personal data on up to 80 million customers of health insurance provider Anthem, Inc.; though free credit monitoring is being offered to victims, such monitoring won't detect or prevent medical identity theft 2014 Event Office supply company Staples announces that up to 1.16 million cards may have been affected by a data breach in October; the company is offering free identity theft protection for shoppers at the affected stores and advises all customers to monitor their credit records 2014 Event The cabinet of Israel approves a bill stating that the nation is both a democratic state and the Jewish homeland; the bill is meant to address political pressure from groups that deny or ignore Israel�s Jewish identity 2012 Event In a letter on a controversy in Germany over circumcision, the President of Israel, Shimon Peres stresses that circumcision is at the core of Jewish identity 2012 Event Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that Israel's identity is threatened by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa 2011 Event Over 110 people are arrested in Queens, New York as part of the largest identity theft and retail crime ring in U.S. history 2001 Death Robert Ludlum, novelist, The Bourne Identity, dies at 73 1994 Death Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity), dies after illness at 44 1974 Birthday Franka Potente, born in Munster, Germany, actress, films include, 'The Bourne Identity', 'All I Want', 'The Bourne Supremacy' 1974 Birthday Jerry O'Connell, New York City, actor, Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity 1960 Death Ian Keith, actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61 1959 Birthday Shelley Burch, born in Tucson, Arizona, actress, One Life to Live, Identity Crisis 1940 Event German occupiers issue identity cards 1927 Birthday Robert Ludlum, New York City, spy novelist, Bourne Identity 1901 Birthday Roger Pryor, New York City, actor, Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown 1887 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity"
