Monday, September 29th, 2008
September 16, 2008
Six people were arrested in Virginia for identity theft. Of the people that were arrested there was one emergency room clerk, a civic league official and two car salesmen. The group of thieves would steal personal information from unsuspecting people. Then the car salesmen would take the information ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
9-12-08
Tennessee State University had a flash drive that had 9,000 students’ financial information and social security numbers go missing. A financial aid counselor reported the flash drive missing on Tuesday morning. She reported it missing when she realized that she no long had it. The last time the flash drive ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
There was a data breach at Grady Memorial Hospital where 45 patients information leaked out onto the Internet. The web space was thought to be a secure server. Turns out that it was on public web space and anyone could have looked at it.
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
A recent data breach in Louisiana has exposed the identities of over 13,000 licensed real-estate agents. The Louisiana Real Estate Commission was transferring data onto a new server when it inadvertently published files containing personal information on the internet. This information was exposed for public viewing for about two days. ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Many corporations handle massive databases of information worth millions of dollars to identity thieves. The majority of these companies have security measures in place to prevent identity thieves from breaking in forcefully. One ring of identity thieves found a way around security altogether and gained control of the identities of ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Normally, identity thieves have to do a lot of work to get personal information from their victims. Sometimes all it takes is a small glitch in a computer system to send this information right into the hands of potential identity thieves. The Georgia Blue Cross recently sent the sensitive personal ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Most soldiers are too concerned with their lives to worry about their identities. We can now add identity theft to the long list of dangers affecting military personnel in the Washington State army base of Fort Lewis. A recent data breach has exposed the personal information of around 900 of ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Students at Columbia University have recently been informed of the school’s second major data breach this year. The social security numbers of over 5,000 students were stored online in a database that absolutely anyone could access. This database was set up so anyone in the world could search the ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Despite the growing awareness of the threat of identity theft and all the measures taken against it, ID theft is actually increasing at alarming rates. According to reports from the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were over 340 reported data breaches in the past year. This represents a 69% ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Another massive data breach was recently discovered at a Texas insurance company. A man was found taking photos of the trash in the dumpster of the Texas Insurance Claims Services building. When police were called in to investigate the incident, they discovered hundreds of files containing social security numbers, phone ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
If you are an organ donor, you may have unknowingly donated more than just your organs. Your very identity might have been exposed to identity theft. Many states now have a program where you can sign up as an organ donor when you apply for a driver’s license. In an ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Most of us see hospitals as safe places, but identity thieves see them as treasure troves. In a recent incident, the identities of over 970,000 people who had visited the Baptist Health Hospital in Arkansas were compromised. A former employee, had taken screenshots of the personal data and printed it ...
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