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You don't report identity theft to local authorities, local cops don't deal with that. In the US you would report it to the FBI and the FTC.

You should file a police report or a report at IdentityTheft.gov. Give as many details as you can, but also recognize as another commenter mentioned that the names you’re seeing are probably also stolen identities. This almost certainly won’t result in any real action unless an investigator can tie enough cases together to identify a suspect. The main reason to do this is you can then go to the credit reporting agencies and place a fraud alert on your records, which should require anyone opening a credit account for you to do extra verification that you’re actually requesting it. If you don’t have a formal report that request only stays active for 1 year but with a formal report they’ll keep it active for 7 years, or at least that was the case a few years ago. You should also freeze your credit report if you haven’t already, which will make it inaccessible to anyone who would want to read it, such as a potential lender. It does become a slight pain to unfreeze it anytime you’re actually applying for credit, but makes it extremely difficult for anyone else to successfully apply for credit in your name.

delete facebook, lawyer up, hit the gym.

C'mon, man, which site?

Chances are that you don't actually have their name; that's likely the name of another victim. Your credit card was never the hacker's goal; that other person's ID is.

Stolen credit cards are effectively worthless on their own. Your card is just a disposable tool for them to validate the ID with, and to see if it passes basic security checks like buying an airline ticket. If they are able to get through the purchase without being flagged, they know they've got a high-value ID to work with. They already know that the credit card is burned the instant they make a purchase with it, so they're likely not poking around further into your financials.

That said, any personal details of yours that they managed to capture in this breach, may also be used to try to steal your ID down the road, so start locking down any details that were ever given to that breached site.

Careful about reversing charges with large companies like Google and Amazon if there's any. If you dispute a charge from Amazon they may wipe away every account that ever used that card - even if you didn't dispute any charge related to that account.

So this is what I would do. if you truly don't care about that email alias just dispose of it whenever you're ready you're probably fine to just move on from that. if you feel like contacting the local authorities I would go ahead and do so of course that happens is they don't do anything about it which is probably likely. best that happens is they catch the person and they take a front door off the street and you did a good job. good job on keeping your account safe like that though most people don't go through all that effort.