If you live in the UK or US you can expect to have already been hacked – at least according to the real life conman turned fraud prevention expert whose escapades inspired Catch Me If You Can. Frank Abagnale, whose early life on the run from the FBI was brought to life on the screen by Leonardo Di Caprio, has said the public is underestimating the extent that their details have been stolen by digital fraudsters, the Times reported. In the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Abagnale, now 66, poses as a doctor, a lecturer, a lawyer and an airline pilot over the course of a crime spree that eventually landed him in prison.Conman who inspired Spielberg film says personal details no longer safeFrank Abagnale, with FBI for 35 years, says IDs have already been stolenFraud expert calls level of theft 'unimaginable' in the technological age
While doing so he cashed $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in every _ state and 26 foreign countries