Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
It appears that consumers are certainly becoming more proactive about protecting themselves from identity theft. But small business owners don't seem to share their concern.
According to a recent survey, small business owners are victims of fraud at a rate of 15 percent more than the general population. In 2010, small ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Credit card information gleaned from the Sony Online Entertainment data breach has already been spotted for sale on the Black Market, according to The New York Times.
Sony announced the breach recently, which has affected 77 million users of games like EverQuest, located on the Play Station video game network. The ...
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
The personal information of more than 3,600 patients at Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, W. Va. was accessible for six months following a data breach.
The information included Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, addresses and phone numbers, and were available through an unsecured online database. A Web site created ...
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
The headlines have been filled in the past year with thousands of data breaches – from universities to hospitals to private companies. There are many more that occur and don't get reported. And for each breach, there are thousands of people who are affected, and who could become victims of ...
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Data breaches of patient information cost health care organizations nearly $6 billion per year, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute.
The impact of a data reach over a two-year period was $2 million per organization, and the lifetime value of lost data on a patient was $107,580. The study ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
A case involving debit card fraud in Wheeling, Ill. is still producing victims, although more than 200 have already come forward.
Victims have already reportedly lost thousands of dollars. The scam takes place when residents use their debit cards at a local business, and then later notice large ATM withdrawals from ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
When documents containing sensitive information are just tossed in the trash, the information is free for the taking. Unfortunately, the ones doing the taking are most often identity thieves.
According to a recent study, 11.1 million adults were victims of identity theft in 209. That's up from 10 million in 2008. ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
A Maryland Department of Human Resources employee was placed on administrative leave after posting the Social Security numbers and other personal information of nearly 3,000 clients of a state agency on a third-party Web site.
There is no evidence to date that the information was used for identity theft, but the ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Data breaches have become a common occurrence. We post about them nearly weekly here at LifeLockPromotionCode.net. Now a recent study by Javelin Research, a financial services research firm, shows an alarming coorelation between those involved in massive data losses and ID theft victims.
To start, nearly 1 in 9 people ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Many times when companies have a "security breach" -- meaning a bunch of their client's confidential information lost or stolen -- it's due to a company laptop disappearing during a conference or being stolen from an office place. Previous examples of this happening would be the California Department of Health ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Most data breach stories are rather boring and includes talk about how companies fail to protect their data. Most companies and organizations have a least one data breach at one time or another. Binghamton University has had many and can’t seem to get their act together. One would assume they ...
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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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