Florists’ Mutual Insurance Company (Hortica), an Illinois-based provider of employee benefits and insurance to companies in the horticultural industry, announced that a locked shipping case containing magnetic backup tapes cannot be located. Hortica believes that the backup tapes contained personal …
RadioShack cited for failing to protect customer information Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he has taken legal action against Fort Worth-based RadioShack Corp-oration for exposing its customers to identity theft. According to documents filed by the AG’s office on …
It could be argued that the RadioShack employees (if the charges prove to be true) were acting out of ignorance or they just didn’t care. It sounds like that argument would not apply to the insurance company, which illegally accessed …
It could be argued that the RadioShack employees (if the charges prove to be true) were acting out of ignorance or they just didn’t care. It sounds like that argument would not apply to the insurance company, which illegally accessed …
IDENTITY THEFT High loss in low-tech crime SHAKY FOUNDATION? Earthquake Authority losing funding
Contrary to popular opinion and despite well-publicized security breaches at governmental entities and major corporations, the primary methods of confiscating information necessary to commit identity theft are old-fashioned, low-tech practices, like “Dumpster diving,” mail fraud and plain old theft. The …
30 Number of states that require companies that have information that can be used in identity theft — driver’s license numbers, bank account numbers, Social Security numbers — to tell individuals if that information has been compromised. $3.6 billion Amount …
The total number of data breach victims in 2006 exceeded the $100 million mark — one record for roughly every three Americans. ID theft occurrences, which result from a portion of such daily breaches, have recently been in the spotlight. …
30 Number of states that require companies that have information that can be used in identity theft — driver’s license numbers, bank account numbers, Social Security numbers — to tell individuals if that information has been compromised. $3.6 billion Amount …
Contrary to popular opinion and despite well-publicized security breaches at governmental entities and major corporations, the primary methods of confiscating information necessary to commit identity theft are old-fashioned, low-tech practices, like “Dumpster diving,” mail fraud and plain old theft. The …
