Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
The Virginia Department of Health Professionals supposedly had 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions stolen from their database. The thief is holding the information ransom for $10 million. This kind of extortion is not a new concept, just last October Express Scripts had their information stolen ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
What happened to New Orleans with hurricane Katrina was horrible. Buildings, cars, and lives were destroyed in the storm, something that people will never forget. However with this destruction comes the responsibility for the destroyed property. You can’t just abandon property especially if the property contains sensitive documents that could ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
The U.S. is going through a tough time right now. Unemployment is on the rise and the economy is failing. Fortunately there is one industry that thrives during economic hardships, too bad that industry is identity theft.
It seems that identity thieves are the only ones not struggling in this economy. ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
I don’t know what got me onto this kick of reporting stories about identity thieves that you should be able to trust with your information. Maybe it’s because there have been so many in the last month. Here is yet another story about someone getting their identity stolen by someone ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
If it wasn’t bad enough that the general public has to be watchful of criminals trying to steal their information and identity, but when the people you trust with your information is the one that steals it from you it hurts even more? I have seen story after store involving ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
In late November I wrote a story about immigration identity theft and the effect it’s having. I mentioned one case out of Colorado that involved the tax preparer, Amalia Cerrillo, the owner of Amalia’s Translation and Tax Services. Well it seems that a judge has ordered a halt to the ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
With all the hype going around about the Conficker computer worm I thought it might be interesting to talk about technologies and people that can brake into systems and steal. For those who don’t know what Conflicker is here is a short description from wikipedia.
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
LifeLock is having another sweepstakes where one lucky winner and a guest will get a trip to New York City for four days and three nights. Along with $1,000 cash prize the lucky prizewinner will also get to experience the season finale of “The Celebrity Apprentice” that’s being filmed on ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
I’m sure that people are tired of hearing about identity theft. Identity theft horror stories are everywhere and are hard to ignore. This story isn’t necessarily a horror story, but it’s a good example of a business that you should be able to trust with your information but probably shouldn’t.
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
What can make identity theft worse than just loosing some money and gaining some bad credit? When the identity thieves make you the criminal instead of them. I have read a couple identity theft stories, similar to the one, and in my opinion they are the worst kinds of identity ...
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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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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
1% of all PCs are Infected my ID Theft malware
According to Panda Security, an online virus and malware scanner service, one out of every 100 computers are infected with malware designed to steal your personal information. These malware programs steal information like your bank account login and investment information and ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Many adults are now guarding themselves with identity theft protection programs like LifeLock. Some identity thieves are turning to easier targets: their children. Children are becoming preferred victims because it is easier to expose their identities and harder to discover the theft. Students are especially easy targets because schools often ...
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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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