Archive for the ‘Life Lock’ Category
Friday, November 7th, 2008
How often do you send personal information over a text message? Some companies have begun to send out informative text messages to their customers through a messaging system. How does the customer know that the information in the text message is actually coming from the company and not from ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Most people don’t consider their birth dates to be very sensitive information. They think of it as a time of celebration and a time to party. Unfortunately our birth dates are typically used by organizations to verify you are who you say you are. Sometimes the birth date is ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
In this digital age we have more and more problems to worry about. As the Internet gets faster and more advanced to becomes easier for thieves to steal information from unsuspecting people. As networks get bigger and computers become common place it becomes a bigger playground for malware and viruses ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
The New Red flag laws were set forth last November as part of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act of 2003. The new laws were designed to make entities that extend credit to consumers in exchange for goods and or services, make a plan to detect identity theft ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Stephanie Pettit, a woman who teaches people about identity theft and how to avoid, it has been a victim of identity theft herself. When she found out that someone had withdrawn over a $1,000 from her checking account she could believe it.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
In a new Case study about children and identity theft found that 5% of children have a credit report when they shouldn't. Over half of those 5% have been a victim of identity theft. Those same 5% had on average 12,779 in credit that was either wrongly assigned to ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Soldiers may be at a higher risk of identity theft then expected. In more recent years identity thieves have been targeting soldiers who are over seas. You might think that this makes an identity theft harder but in fact to does not. Soldiers that are over seas will not have ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
The nightmare doesn't stop there. Byrd was then fired from his Part-time job for failing to disclose his criminal recored which he didn't really have. A couple months later he was fired from him full-time job. When he tried to get his unemployment benefits they were denied because of ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Malcolm Byrd has been arrested several times because some stole his identity and is committing crimes in Byrd's name. Byrd has been arrested not once, not twice, but three times because of the crimes of the identity theft.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The Fresno police department are looking for the people who broken into the KRM building and stole some computers. One of the computers,a laptop, had very sensitive information on it. The laptop had personal information on almost 5,700 city employees. The information on the computer dates back to 1973.
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
A inmate in the Multnomah County jail was running a Identity theft ring from inside jail. The inmate was using the phone systems to call his associates who would then make a three way conference call to someone else. Shawn McGinnis, the inmate, would then act as a kind of ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Hospital patients of Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA have been exposed to Identity theft. A man was using the hospital's online registration system when he accidentally found the files of 803 patients. The hospital is claiming that the data breach is an anomaly and that the man was the ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Jacelyn Kirsch and her boyfriend, Edward Anderson Stole the identities of more than 50 people amounting to about $100,000 in damages, stolen from friends and neighbors. They were sentenced to 5 years in prison for their 6 felonies which included money laundering, mail fraud and aggravated Identity theft.
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Boston College in March 2005 had to send letters to 100,000 alumni to inform them that a server of theirs had been hacked and that they were subject to identity theft. The server that was locked in a server closet in one of the computer labs held the records of ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Deutsche Telekom is the German mobile phone subsidiary of T-Mobile which lost about 17 millions customers personal information in early 2006. Why didn't we hear about it back then? The T-Moblie company kept it a secret for more than 2 years before going public with the information about the data ...
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