The Frozen Pii Story

Frozen Pii, powered by the ITRC, was originally founded by Tom O’Malley based on his personal experience as a data breach victim and federal prosecutor specializing in cybercrime and identity fraud prosecutions.

In 2015, the sensitive “personally identifiable information” (pii) of Tom and 21.5 million other data breach victims was stolen from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The OPM data breach motivated him to build Frozen Pii to help his family, friends, and colleagues prevent their stolen digital identities from being used by criminals to get fraudulent credit cards, loans, and other credit-related accounts.

After Tom retired from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2019, he continued his public service in the private sector by making Frozen Pii available to everyone who wants to start protecting their financial identity for free.

In 2025, Tom donated Frozen Pii to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). A national non-profit, the ITRC has been providing free identity remediation support to victims of identity crimes for 25 years. To learn more about the ITRC, visit IDTheftCenter.org.

Thanks to Tom’s generous spirit of public service and his on-going desire to help other victims of identity crimes, the ITRC continues to advance the mission of Frozen Pii – to help prevent the criminal use of stolen personal information.