The Federal Trade Commission released a report on Wednesday listing the top complaints filed by consumers in 2009. Identity theft remains at the top. Of the 1.3 million complaints the agency received last year, 21 percent were for identity theft.
The report breaks out complaint data on a state-by-state basis and also contains data about the [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
Identity Theft Number 1 Consumer Complaint
Southern Illinois University Hit by Data Breach
Close to one thousand former Southern Illinois University students are now at the risk of identity theft. University officials said an old computer in the math department was hit by a virus last month. The computer contained the names and Social Security numbers of 900 students who took a particular math class five years ago. SIU [...]
BlueCross BlueShield Data Breach up to 500,000
The Chattanooga-based health insurer said the number of affected customers with potentially compromised identification and health information has more than doubled from the 220,133 persons already notified about the identity threat.
An additional 301,628 current and former members of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will be receiving letters alerting them that their personal information was included on [...]
National Archives Data Breach Affects 250,000
A data breach at the National Archives and Records Administration is more serious than previously believed. It involved sensitive personal information of 250,000 Clinton administration staff members, job applicants and White House visitors.
The data, which included more than 100,000 Social Security numbers, was stored on a computer hard drive that the NARA discovered missing last [...]
