Republican presidential candidate John McCain made Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, otherwise known as “Joe the Plumber,” famous during the October 15 debate with Democrat Barack Obama, and in subsequent television advertisements. Since then, numerous personal details have been disclosed about this working class Ohio guy who did not want pay higher taxes on income over $250,000 […]
A college student who with her boyfriend stole the identities of friends and neighbors was sentenced Friday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution. Jocelyn Kirsch, a former Drexel University student, and then-boyfriend Edward Anderton used the money for expensive salon visits, exotic vacations and fancy dinners. Federal […]
Deutsche Telekom’s German mobile phone subsidiary T-Mobile lost a disk containing personal information about 17 million of its customers in early 2006, the company said Saturday. Silent about the data loss for more than two years, the company published its version of events on Saturday following a report in German news magazine Der Spiegel that […]
Ten thousand users of LinkedIn, a social networking site for professionals, were recently targeted in a “spear phishing” email scam trying to lure them into downloading a malicious software attachment. In a blog post Wednesday, Brian Krebs of the Washington Post, who first reported the story, said recipients of the email were addressed by name, […]
Submitted by Philip G. on Friday, 10/10/2008 – 8:17pm. Last year in late November I was the victim of identity theft, my SS#, DOB, Mother maiden name, Discover Card number and security check were comprised and used to change address information at Discover Card’s web site. I was called in early December from Discover Card […]