Submitted by Keith843 Over the last two weeks, I went to my local Wells Fargo bank branch twice to place electronic wire orders. These wires usually take a little time to complete and I was in the branch for approximately 20 minutes each time I visited. The banker did all the work of inputting the […]
story courtesy of Teri Newton I recently became one of the 9 million people to become victim to identity theft this year in the United States. Much of what I have learned in the last few weeks I share to spark outrage at what is becoming more and more common and also to share what […]
Have you ever given more than a passing glance to the dumpsters in the back parking lot of your neighborhood stores? They’re not just trash bins. For recycling devotees, they’re a treasure trove of cast-offs. For others, they’re a fertile source of raw materials that can be used to commit identify theft fraud. It stinks […]
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 […]
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 […]
Submitted by Brian P. on Tues, 9/23/2008 – 12:07pm. The first I knew about it was a phone call. My girlfriend admonished me for succumbing to the temptations of Facebook, a website whose poisoned fruits I had previously said I found unappealing. I stood accused of two crimes: a lack of willpower and a failure […]
Submitted by Mary M. on Tues, 9/02/2008 – 10:47am. With ID fraud on the rise, the assumption is you’ll lose money which can be claimed back. But Simon Bunce lost his job, and his father cut off contact, when he was arrested after an ID fraudster used his credit card details on a child porn […]
The number of reported data breaches has been soaring, with the figure from the first six months of 2008 some 69 percent higher than the number from the identical period last year. Among those were little-known recent breaches of Facebook, H&R Block and BearingPoint. The report from the non-profit San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center […]
Personal information for current and former employees of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. in several states is missing, the nation’s largest brewer said Friday. Anheuser-Busch said in a statement that several laptops were recently stolen from one of its office buildings in the St. Louis area, where it has its headquarters. It said at least one of […]
Submitted by Matt C. on Tues, 7/29/2008 – 10:47am. Original article written March 2008. Wichita Police have arrested a man and a woman after the man walked into a patrol substation and reported that he was an undercover agent who had assumed the identity of someone else. Sergeant Bruce Watts says the man explained where […]