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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...
Forget about who is minding the store. The more important question here is who is protecting the identities of consumers? Which businesses care about protecting our data? Are there any financial institutions taking this crime seriously? If not, why aren't...
Laptops are a growing target of thieves and with skyrocketing laptop usage, the number of laptop thefts will continue to rise -and so too will the number of identity thefts. In fact, various manufacturers of GPS tracking software for laptops...
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has reported a hacker breached data on one of its servers that places 236,000 woman at risk for identity theft. The woman were participating in a mammography study in North Carolina. Among the...
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...
The Identity Theft Resource Center released it's latest figures on data breaches for the first half of 2009. Their latest report Data Breaches Undeterred by Laws or Common Sense shows that in the first half of 2009, malicious attacks on...
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...
An identity theft ring that included bank employees, bank supervisors and a postal worker used counterfeit checks to steal at least $100,000 across South Florida in recent months, police said Friday.Of 46 people suspected of being in the ring, 24...
The NYPD cracked open a sophisticated identity theft ring that ruined the credit of 6,000 victims and rang up $15 million in fraudulent bank credit card charges.The scam was one of the largest operations of its kind.The thieves managed to...
A band of brazen thieves ripped off hundreds of New Yorkers by rigging ATMs to steal account and password information from bank customers. (see video below)They used the pilfered info to swipe half a million dollars from their victims' bank...

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