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‘The Woman With 90 Names’ Finally Crosses One Off Her List
For most of us, $60 buys a nice dinner out, maybe with enough left over to split a dessert. For Tomas Alvarez*, it bought a new life. Or more accurately, it stole one.In 1997, Alvarez slipped $60 to...
View ArticleHacker Exposes Bush Private Photos
A hacker recently gained access to email accounts of people associated with Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, which led to private emails and photographs being distributed online. This...
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An Ohio Contractor Rebuilds After Identity Theft
It should have been just another trip to Lowe’s for Don Brown. When his corporate credit card was turned down at the register, the self-employed contractor discovered that his credit card company had...
View ArticleFacebook, Apple Computers Hacked
The world's largest social media website recently fell victim to a data breach after an employee visited a mobile developer that was compromised. While at this developer, Facebook employees' laptops...
View ArticleVideo Game Focuses On Data Hacking
Recent data breaches occurring at government agencies and social media giants have made the issue a major topic of conversation. With the announcement of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs for Play Station 4, the...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Tax-Time Identity Theft
Still haven't filed your taxes this year? This fact will get you moving: Tax refund theft is the fastest-growing crime in the country, according to a government report. It happens when crooks use your...
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Fraud Files: Identity Theft Grips Entire Neighborhood
Tucked in a pocket of northeast Ohio, not far from Lake Erie, is a little piece of the American dream. Two-story homes of brick and stone stand in front of big backyards, surrounded by a community of...
View ArticleAir Travel Security Changes Include Collection Of Additional Personal...
Airport security is making news these days. A hot topic under discussion this week is how screeners will identify risk-based travelers. It has civil liberty groups worried about the security of...
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Woman Battles ID Thieves Who Keep Coming Like Zombies
Carole Stuber, a Long Island, N.Y., retiree, isn’t much of a gamer. So when she spotted a $400 charge from an online video game seller on a 2010 credit card statement, it stood out. Next came charges...
View ArticleAre Your Electronic Communications Private? Think Twice Before You Send
You probably consider your emails and direct Twitter and Facebook messages to be private communications-something between you and the receiver. They aren't available for anyone else to read unless you...
View ArticlePrivacy Concerns Pit Parents Against New York Education Department
Privacy-minded parents are clashing with the New York State Education Department (NYSED) over the development of a data cloud that will contain the personal information of millions of New York public...
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Retired Teacher Gets Tested By Tax Fraud
An accountant rarely rings at 8 a.m. with good news. Sure enough, when Paige Brown* took the call, she found out the IRS had rejected her tax return because someone already had filed in her name and...
View ArticleParents Use Apps To Mobilize Against Child ID Theft
More kids than ever are accessing the Internet through mobile devices, and more children than ever are having their identities stolen. With child identity theft and Internet security concerns...
View ArticleFame And Fortune Are No Defense Against Identity Theft
Celebrity, wealth and a battalion of body guards might seem like things that would deter identity thieves. But even the rich and famous can fall prey to identity theft. High-profile Americans from the...
View ArticleBYOD Puts Employees, Employers At Risk of ID Theft
Employees using personal smartphones or iPads for office work might seem like a win-win all around. Workers don't have to keep track of multiple devices or transfer data between devices, and they have...
View ArticleCyber Security Giant: Attacks on Small Business 'Threaten All of Us'
Small businesses are the new darlings of cyber criminals. Business identity theft and cyber attacks are a rapidly growing problem with far-reaching ramifications for not only the companies targeted,...
View ArticleTax ID Theft Against Seniors Sparks Worry, Action Among Feds
Just when you think identity thieves can't sink any lower than robbing children by using their clean credit profiles for criminal purposes, news emerges of an escalating form of identity theft: tax...
View ArticleSecurity Advice for Mobile Device Users
With 87 percent of American adults owning cellphones (according to Pew Research Center), 45 percent possessing smartphones, 26 percent toting e-book readers and 31 percent owning tablet computers, it's...
View ArticleGAO: Flaws In IRS Controls Led To Invalid Refunds to Dead Taxpayers
It's a sad statistical fact that when data breaches or business identity theft occur, a failure of internal safeguards is often to blame-partially or entirely. Often, organizations or companies leave...
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When a Soldier Comes Home to Identity Theft
Norman Rockwell painted soldiers coming home to open-armed relatives, hot meals and hard-earned rest. Rick Martinez’s homecoming wasn’t so heartwarming. The National Guardsman returned from an 11-month...
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