Posts under ‘Preventing Identity Theft’

Around 22,000 Social Security numbers of Delaware state government retirees have been inadvertently posted online by a government contractor.
Aon Consulting included the Social Security numbers, gender and birthdates of about 22,000 Delaware state government retirees in a request for proposals for insurance companies interested in providing vision coverage to employees and retirees.  Retirees affected included [...]

The Ohio State Highway Patrol has seen the number of identity theft cases more than double this year.  Identity theft is a $10 million a year criminal business, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The increase in identity theft cases in the past year is alarming and continues to grow. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says [...]

More and more young children our becoming victims of identity theft at an alarming rate.  Often times they are completely unaware of the theft until many years later.  They do not find out until they attempt to get a college loan, credit card, or purchase a car and are denied.
Hundreds of online businesses are finding [...]

Individuals with diabetes have been targeted in a recent identity theft scam.  The identity theft scam is effective because the identity thieves know the intended victim has diabetes.
The identity theft scheme was first discovered in Mississippi. It was reported that diabetics were receiving phone calls from identity thieves claiming to be from the Diabetes Foundation [...]

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal believes The Connecticut Teachers’ Retirement Board owes its members identity theft protection and an explanation after waiting six months to inform them they lost a flash drive containing their personal information.
Blumenthal is urging the board to give the 58,000 plus members identity theft protection for two years and provide them with [...]

On Monday a Federal Trade Commission representative stated that current privacy laws fail to protect American consumers. Â
“We’ve put too much burden on the consumers to understand these policies,” said Kathryn Ratte, a senior attorney in the FTC’s consumer protection bureau.
This is most likely the result of a report that the agency plans to publish later [...]

A Staten Island-based identity theft ring was charged with stealing the personal and financial information of at least 200 people and using it to steal in excess of $5 million before caught, officials announced on Wednesday.
The ringleaders of the scam were Kazeem Badru, 38, Ganiu Rilwan, 46, and Okoronkwo Okechukwu, 32.
The ringleaders recruited other conspirators [...]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has once again postponed enforcement of the Red Flags Rule from June 1 until Dec. 31, 2010 at the request of several members of Congress. The FTC stated that Congress would be considering legislation on the scope of entities covered by the Rule.
The FTC “urges Congress to act quickly to [...]

Starting June 1st, businesses that extend credit to customers will have to develop a written plan to try to prevent identity theft.  The Federal Trade Commission has ordered businesses to develop plans to spot red flags when fraud may be involved and ways to prevent it.  This is known as the Red Flags Rule.
“Once the [...]

The Los Angeles Firemen’s Credit Union has notified members that their private information may have been compromised.
The letter from the CEO Michael Maestro states that a small percentage of files were not properly moved when the Credit Union relocated. The personal data that could have been compromised included members names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, [...]