Becoming a victim of identity theft is never something you would want to happen to you, especially as it can end up depriving you of your life's earnings and even put you into deep debt without it in any way being a result of your own actions.
Hackers and identity theft is a very real cause for concern today and not something that you would normally associate with science fiction where all sorts of plots are always being hatched in order to rob people of their identities.