A new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) sheds light on the emotional toll of identity theft and it explains why the losses extend well beyond the financial.

The center conducted its annual report on the consumer impact of identity crime, focusing on the rate of victims who contemplated suicide. The numbers it found were staggering.

More than $12.5 billion was lost last year to fraud and identity theft, according to the Federal Trade Commission, but the dollars lost aren't the only casualties of the crime.

"I think in our minds we think that when it's a financial crime and not a physical, violent crime that it just doesn't have the same impact on someone, on their life and their emotions, but it absolutely does and the data in this report proves that," said Eva Velasq

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