Identity thieves are seemingly everywhere, thinking up clever new ways to steal financial information and use it to spend money that isn't theirs. How dare they? Sidejacking is just another one of the tactics that identity thieves use to try...
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Cornell informed more than 45,000 current and former members of the University community that their names and social security numbers had been exposed when a University-owned laptop was stolen earlier this month.The laptop that contained unencrypted names and Social Security...
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The University of California-Berkeley recently acknowledged that hackers breached a database of the university's health system records, including 160,000 names and Social Security numbers.UC Berkeley said it was notifying the people affected about possible identity theft or fraud, but the...
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