Latest Identity theft Stories

Fraud Prevention Month survey finds young people oversharing, putting themselves at risk of payment card fraud TORONTO, Feb. 26, 2013 /CNW/ - A new survey released today by Visa Canada to mark the start of Fraud Prevention Month has uncovered a concerning trend among young people. A significant number of young Canadians who regularly post personal information on social network sites are putting themselves at unnecessary risk by mirroring similar oversharing behaviour offline...

Survey reveals 56 percent of respondents acknowledged incidents when their organizations did not act on a vendor's data breach COSTA MESA, Calif., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study, Securing Outsourced Consumer Data, commissioned by Experian Data Breach Resolution and conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals that many organizations (46 percent) do not evaluate the security and privacy practices of vendors before sharing sensitive or confidential information. The survey...

The initiative is to keep individuals from becoming victims of fraud. Houston, TX (PRWEB) February 25, 2013 Cemetery.us.org is expanding from its core business of providing cemetery records to help consumers protect themselves from fraud, the company said yesterday. “This is not only an untapped market; it's a market that can help cut down on crime, which benefits everyone,” a company representative said. “When people lose money to theft, they pass the loss onto consumers in the...

Simple To Use, USB-Based Offering Helps Prevent Identity Theft and Electronic Fraud, Even on Infected Machines SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference, Booth # 2258 - Easy Solutions, the Total Fraud Protection® company, today unveiled Detect Safe Browsing To Go (DSB2Go), a highly affordable, easy-to-use USB device that offers users a system of secure access to critical websites, regardless of whether the machine used is infected with malware. DSB2Go is...

CHANTILLY, Va., Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research, has found there were 12.6 million victims of identity fraud in 2012; a one million increase over the previous year. The report also found the total amount of fraud increased to $21 billion, the largest loss suffered in the past three years, and an increase of nearly $3 billion from the 2011 study. Data from the report indicated one in four consumers who received a data...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online On Monday, security firm Mandiant released a report which claims the Chinese military has a secret branch used to commit cyberattacks against the US, Canada, the UK and other English-speaking countries. The Friday before, Facebook, the world’s largest social network, announced they had been targeted by a “sophisticated attack” a month before, though no data was stolen. Just yesterday, Apple also announced a similar...

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare organizations' privacy programs are still understaffed and underfunded, even while millions of patients' protected health information (PHI) are compromised. Securing PHI in healthcare is an obstacle, with 94 percent of healthcare organizations suffering data breaches in the past two years, according to the Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security. Organizations face new challenges with the...

CreditLaw.com’s Craig Thor Kimmel urges students to take action before thieves run up debt using stolen identities Ambler, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) February 13, 2013 According to a local NBC report, a Cheyney University employee accidentally emailed the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of hundreds of students to their entire student body. In light of Cheyney University’s recent breach of its students’ personal identification information, CreditLaw.com’s Craig Kimmel, Esq....

DENVER, Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ID Watchdog, Inc. (TSX VENTURE: IDW) (PINKSHEETS: IDWAF) ("ID Watchdog" or the "Company"), provider of consumer-facing identity theft protection and resolution services, today is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Identity Rehab Corporation ("ID Rehab") has closed on a $500,000 secured credit facility with Costella Kirsch, a California based lender (the "Lender"). ID Rehab borrowed $250,000 on the credit facility at closing...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online To be honest, we all should have seen this coming. According to BBC News, AVG’s Virus Labs have discovered that children as young as 11 years old have been writing malicious code to hack into other systems. Unsurprisingly, these young children are using this code to hack into online gaming networks in order to steal digital currency used in the games as well as extra tools and weapons to help them progress through the levels....