Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Bad news if you're a BlueCross BlueShield member in the Volunteer state. Fifty-seven hard drives that contained personal information on around 500,000 BCBS members has been stolen according to the insurance company. The theft happened on October 2nd when an unidentified thief stole the drives from a closet in ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
It sounds like a drama plot from a television show: a character, used to his high-frills lifestyle, gets wrapped up in the wrong crowd and eventually in over his head. Except this story wasn't written by a member of the writer's guild and it didn't air during prime time ...
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Like it or not your identity is out there. Every time you apply for a credit card, mortgage, loan, buy something online or even go to the doctor's office you're releasing parts of your identity into the ether. And that identity can been scooped up, mishandled or sold to ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
Tashannyo Adena Medley, a receptionist for a Jacksonville Are Legal Aid -- a firm that focuses on providing legal assistance to low income clients -- was charged with identity theft this past week. Prosecutors believe that Medley was responsible for stealing at least twenty clients identity and using that ...
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
There's no crime like ID theft during the holidays and nothing can ruin your holiday cheer faster than finding out you've been a victim of identity theft. During the holiday season people give generously -- our time, our money and our credit cards.
We charge up a bundle in department ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Parents tell their kids "you can grow up to be whatever you want to be" all the time. Maybe it's time to rethink that or, at the very least, add a disclaimer. "You can grow up to be whatever you want to be*... *as long as it involves being ...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
When you hear stories that involve identity theft between a woman and her nanny, one would normally draw the conclusion that the nanny is stealing from the mother. Most likely visions of Rebecca De Mornay and scenes from Hand that Rocks the Cradle flash through your head. This time ...
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Nearly every week another story about irresponsibly handled documents containing vital personal information comes out. This is another one of those stories and would have followed the same path if not for one responsible man.
Billy Tookoian is a landlord in San Francisco. Last year one of the businesses renting ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Number 1,374 to have your identity stolen - buying textbooks online.
Every semester millions of college attendees go online and seek out the best deals on necessary textbooks for their upcoming classes. Many know the deals are to be found online instead of the stores with large online textbook retailers ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
It was revealed this week that Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve, and his wife, head of Ben Bernanke, were victims of identity theft last year. Ann Bernanke was at a Starbucks when her purse was snatched off the back of her chair. Included in its contents was a ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Heartbreakers was a movie that came out in 2001 that dealt with a mother (played by Sigorney Weaver) and daughter (Jennifer Love Hewitt) team who conned millionaires out of their money. While Barbara Niedkowski isn't Sigorney Weaver and her daughter, Delilah Campbell, is no Jennifer Love Hewitt, they're stories share ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
One hundred and thirty million. The number itself just boggles the mind. Try to think of 130,000,000 of anything and you'll get a headache. Now think of that number in regards to debit card information. That's right, 130 million account records -- that's the number that Albert Gonzalez stole... this ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
The scary and short answer is yes, at least according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Linda Norris was pulled over by an FHP officer and when her ID was checked it showed that she had an outstanding warrant for parole violation stemming from an earlier prostitution charge. The thing is, Ms. ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
"Ghosting" is when someone steals the identity of a deceased person and it's on the rise. While the U.S. doesn't track statistics on "ghosting," in the United Kingdom the crime is so prolific that a person has a 16% chance of having their identity used illegally after their death.
The ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Most people have said, at some point, that government only exists to make their lives harder. While normally rhetoric, in this case, it may be true.
Congress recently passed legislation allowing the last four digits of your social security number to be published on public documents. Though this might not seem ...
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