Posts tagged Identity Theft

• US Commerce Department Laptop Problem

  Staff Writer | September 23, 2006 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Commerce Department recently reported that it lost over 1000 laptop computers over the past few years. Well after the laptop security incident involving two laptops at the Veterans Administration and the exposure of personal data involving military personnel, hopefully the Commerce Department learned lessons about data security. According to public reports, the Commerce Department...

• Annual Free Credit Reports Available

  Staff Writer | September 18, 2006 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  This time each year, consumers may obtain a free copy of their credit report from any of the three credit reporting agencies according to the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003. Today the Federal Trade Commission reminded consumers to exercise their right to obtain a credit report in part to guard against identity theft. According to the Federal Trade Commision: As mandated by...

• Efforts to Prevent Identity Theft

  Staff Writer | September 10, 2006 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It looks like some companies are finally understanding that identity theft prevention should be a high priority for anybody choosing to have an internet presence. Just within the past few weeks, credit card companies have banded together to come up with workable data security standards, AT&T filed suit against various data brokers for misappropriating customer data and a company has released a...

• AT&T On-Line Store Hacked

  Staff Writer | August 30, 2006 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Well, AT&T has become the next corporation to allow hackers to steal private data concerning its customers. About nineteen thousand consumers who shopped on-line through an AT&T web site have had their credit card and other personal identification information stolen. In this case, apparently AT&T offered to pay for credit monitoring services to assist consumers for awhile. The extent of...

• New Data Theft Problems

  Staff Writer | August 29, 2006 3:20 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In the past few days across the electronic spectrum, we've seen data thefts involving a university, a bank, and a few US agencies. We have also seen employees from an internet provider leak out sensitive search engine query information concerning the search habits of its customers. A variety of problems have occurred with the protection of sensitive information leaving consumers in a worse...

• New Data Protection Survey

  Staff Writer | August 17, 2006 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Well, the identity theft information overload continues. It appears that corporations regularly lose sensitive data these days. If you do business with companies which require you to provide social security numbers, birthdates, addresses and other confidential information, perhaps you should check out how companies protect this sensitive information in advance. Today I read an article which...

• Yet Another Identity Theft Incident

  Staff Writer | August 15, 2006 10:55 PM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A laptop computer stolen? The risk of identity theft high? Social security numbers and other confidential informaiton compromised? Sounds familiar doesn't it? Was this the Veterans Affairs incident? The Federal Trade Commission incident? Something else? The story sounds eerily similar. Information on a laptop containing names, addresses, birthdates, and social security numbers of over...

• Inspector General Blasts Veterans Administration Data Security

  Staff Writer | July 17, 2006 11:25 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On July 11, 2006, the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General released a much anticipated report concerning the theft and loss of Veterans Administration data involving more than twenty-six million veterans. According to the Inspector General, on May 3, 2006, the home of a Veterans Affairs employee was burglarized resulting in the theft of a laptop computer and external hard...

• Corporation Information Technology Priorities

  Staff Writer | July 09, 2006 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I came across a web site dealing with new technology and corporate mobility issues. Citing the recent computer theft from the Veterans Administration, Thomas Wailgum, who authored an entry on this web site, addressed the fundamental problems associated with maintaining private data while in the midst of a corporate computing mobility revolution. This article highlights the problems associated...

• Channel 12 News Reporter Victim of Identity Theft

  Staff Writer | July 03, 2006 6:42 PM | 1 CommentPhoenix, AZ Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Well Rick DeBruhl, a news reporter with Channel Twelve News in Arizona just became an apparent victim of identity theft and decided to write a story about it in the Arizona Republic. His story presents an interesting variation of typical identity theft problems which unfortunately have been popping up more and more frequently. Apparently, this news reporter's identity on E-Bay was stolen and...