I agree with Renee,
Although Identity theft is always a really disturbing event, and some of you have noticed what seems like lax security in affiliate sites, we must remember that what was originally compromised was an email account.
As affiliates become wealthier from their online businesses, they will increasingly become potential victims of identity thieves. In general, things to avoid are phishing schemes like those you’ve probably all seen from scammers claiming to be ebay, amazon, etc. We need to begin to be as suspicious of emails claiming to be from affiliate programs asking you to update your account information for no apparent reason. The easy way around an email telling you to ‘update your info’ is to not click on the link in the email, and to type the URL directly in your browser instead.
Another good rule is to glance at the URL when typing in log-in information. For instance when loging in to CAP, you log in at http://www.casinoaffiliateprograms.com, if you notice any variation (such as http://www.CAP.com) be suspicious! (Maybe not too big a deal for CAP, but definitely of concern at any site where you exchange funds, such as your bank or your affiliate program).
That said, there are legitimate concerns being expressed in your feed-back here, and we will definitely take a look at our protocols here at IA to minimize the risk to affiliates on our end.