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Steps to Prevent Identity Theft, and What to Do if It Happens

May 8, 2009

Steps to Prevent Identity Theft, and What to Do if It Happens | NYT

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Credit Card Skimming: How thieves can steal your card info without you knowing it

April 7, 2009

Fantastic gallery of card skimmers. Credit Card Skimming: How thieves can steal your card info without you knowing it | NetworkWorld (via Consumerist)

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Identity theft at the ATM

February 23, 2009

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U.S. passport information a piece of cake to steal

February 4, 2009

A hacker with $250 of easy-to-obtain equipment drove around San Francisco grabbing users’ personal information from passports and drivers’ licenses equipped with soon-to-be-mandatory radio-frequency identification (RFID) cihps.
The government has been pushing for tagging most identification with RFID chips, claiming it would be impossible or unlikely for hackers to do just what Chris Paget did with [...]

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Credit reports apparently generated by Flintstones technology

December 17, 2008

According to Gary Nitzkin, “[t]he credit reporting industry is operating in the stone age.” By which he means the credit reporting agencies seem incapable of dealing with credit information that comes from identity theft. Gary filed two lawsuits because even though the identity thief confessed, he could not get his clients’ credit reports fixed.
Why not? [...]

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How Outsourced Call Centers Are Costing Millions In Identity Theft

October 27, 2008

How Outsourced Call Centers Are Costing Millions In Identity Theft | Consumerist

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Mortgage firm Countrywide, in response to alleged data breach, offers free credit monitoring

September 10, 2008

“As many as 2 million loan applicants may have had their personal information stolen, the FBI says.” Mortgage firm Countrywide, in response to alleged data breach, offers free credit monitoring | LA Times

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Credit card industry kills Mythbusters attempt to examine RFID security

August 30, 2008

Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities | Boing Boing

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Former Countywide Employee Arrested For Stealing, Selling Customer Identities

August 4, 2008

Former Countywide Employee Arrested For Stealing, Selling Customer Identities | Consumerist

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Georgia Sends 202,000 Letters Containing Personal Information To The Wrong Addresses

July 30, 2008

Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Georgia Sends 202,000 Letters Containing Personal Information To The Wrong Addresses | Consumerist

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Are airline kiosks safe?

July 29, 2008

Are airline kiosks safe? | Red Tape Chronicles

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Bank Of America Lets Identity Thief Withdraw $40,000 In A Single Day

July 27, 2008

Bank Of American Lets Identity Thief Withdraw $40,000 In A Single Day | Consumerist

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Most Bank Websites Are Insecure

July 24, 2008

Most Bank Websites Are Insecure | /.

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Consumers in California lose 99% of the time

May 29, 2008

ABC News did a great piece on debt collection, arbitration, and especially the National Arbitration Forum, where consumers in California lose 99% of the time. A former NAF arbitrator says on camera that she was forced to quit for ruling in favor of a consumer one time. Stick around for the great commentary at the [...]

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After a multimillion-dollar verdict, attorneys get fee award, too

April 24, 2008

To add (just) insult to (just) injury, a Florida judge awarded $518,301 to Angela Williams’s attorneys (PDF link). Ms. Williams recently won almost $3 million in a lawsuit against Equifax for Equifax’s refusal to fix her credit report after her identity was stolen.
While it may not be obvious when a consumer receives such a high [...]

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LendingTree lawyers threaten blogger with defamation

April 24, 2008

Alex Stenback of Behind the Mortgage recently posted the LendingTree data breach story seen here [and here], and his posting attracted a provocative comment regarding LendingTree’s lending practices. In short, the commenter alleged that LendingTree does not let banks compete, but has its own internal lending division (Home Loan Center) that does all the “competing.”

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Wait, now mortgage lenders are stealing identities?

April 22, 2008

It’s bad enough that identity thieves are now resorting to brick-and-mortar thievery, according to the Red Tape Chronicles, now mortgage lenders are stealing personal financial information, too. Apparently, some former LendingTree employees helped some unnamed mortgage lenders to hack into the LendingTree system and steal information for LendingTree customers from 2006 to early 2008.
LendingTree notified [...]

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700,000 Central Collection Bureau, Inc., accounts vulnerable to identity theft

April 22, 2008

On March 21st, thieves removed eight computers and a server from Central Collection Bureau’s headquarters in Indianapolis. On the server was personal information, including names, addresses, and social security numbers of as many as 700,000 consumers that CCB was collecting from.
The information on the server was stored behind three locked doors and protected by a [...]

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Do not give away your identity for a candy bar

April 17, 2008

Infosecurity Europe recently offered a chocolate bar to 576 office workers if they would reveal some personal information. Passwords, dates of birth, names and telephone numbers. In short, more than enough to steal an identity. Sadly, 45% of women and 10% of men happily gave away their passwords for a bit of chocolate!
Listen, folks, all [...]

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