How does your city and state rank for identity theft?

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Identity theft is everywhere, but many people think that either it just won't happen to them or based on where they live they are safe. It's commonly known that identity theft is the fastest rising crime in America. Based on the Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Sentinel Network, identity theft complaints ...

Ohio State University Data Breach

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Ohio State University found itself mailing out 18,000 letters over the holidays informing some of their students that their names and social security numbers could have fallen into the wrong hands. Not exactly what I want to hear after the holidays.

Washington State Department Possible Identity Theft

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Washington State announced today, Friday October 31, that 400 passport applications may have been breached. This means that those 400 people have been left open to identity theft. So far 383 people have been notified about the identity theft. Not all of the 383 have been victims of identity theft ...

Security breach at State Farm Insurance

Friday, September 26th, 2008

There was a security breach at the Sunrise insurance agency in Arizona that has the potential to expose hundreds of people to identity theft. One of the agents that worked at the Sunrise insurance agency, by the name of Lisa Ro Grant, stole the information of customers to open credit-card ...