There's no doubt that credit card fraud and identity theft is a problem. In fact, protecting your personal data from criminals is harder than ever. All you can really do is check your statements, and be mindful of where you spend your money. In efforts to keep hackers and criminals away from our credit cards, a new security system is being invented for credit cards using nanotechnology. Using very unique nanoparticles on the credit card strip, the method could prevent almost anyone from forging your identity.

We're talking about quantum physics here. Known as Quantum-Secure Authentication, a group of scientists from the Netherlands use the power of quantum physics to confirm a credit card's identity in a very specific manner. Going deeper into the method, rather than using traditional magnetic cards, which can be easily copied or emulated by accessing information on the strip, the new system would have a strip of nanoparticles zapped with a laser, giving it the most unique access code available.

Using the quantum power of light, the card's photons would relay an unbreakable question-and-answer authentication. This is possible due to the photon's ability to defy normal behavior by being displayed in multiple locations at the same time. The best part is what happens if a hacker tries to mess with the data. The researchers say if this were to happen, the question-and-answer would “collapse the quantum nature of the light and destroy the information being transmitted”.

So long, suckers. This technology could also be used for other security purposes, such as protecting government buildings, ID cards, cars, and passports.