When my identity was stolen, my local police department said they couldn't do much for me besides file a police report to keep on file. They said I should have protected myself by having some sort of security system and they recommended ""Lifelock". There might be better ones out there now so do your own research, and probably all of them can be hacked; but the fact remains that if you hire an outside agency (besides the internal firewall and virus protection product) you have a service that is constantly watching your back so you are not surprised, and you have a company that will take the fall for you if you are hacked. Not a bad deal at all.