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Identity Theft Secrets
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Description: Tips, Reviews, & Sources to aid Consumers in Protecting and Preventing their Credit and Personal Information from Identity Theft and Fraud. Contents: 4 Yr Old & Kids Get $4 Million in Tax Credits to Buy Homes From the "can't believe its true" file: No one under the age of 18 can legally purchase a home. However, a four year old baby as well as hundreds of other minors managed to provide tax payer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] 4 Yr Old & Kids Get $4 Million in Tax Credits to Buy Homes [Flickr] IdTheftSecrets posted a photo: a four year old baby as well as hundreds of other minors managed to provide tax payer identification numbers (TIN) as part of the qualification process in receiving U.S. federal tax credits reserved specifically for first time home buyers. Discover the Shocking Truth to Identity Theft $2.1 million Identity Theft Ring Hits Fed Chairman Bernanke Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's wife was among the victims of an identity theft ring responsible for over $2 million in fraud perpetrated by an "inside" accomplice working for two D.C. area... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] $2.1m Identity Theft Ring Hits Fed Chairman Bernanke [Flickr] IdTheftSecrets posted a photo: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's wife was among the victims of an identity theft ring responsible for over $2 million in fraud perpetrated by an "inside" accomplice working for two D.C. area physicians. Identity Theft Criminals Get 3 More Months Delay In Red Flags In a law originally slated to take effect 11/1/2008, the F.T.C. has again delayed the beginning of enforcement for a third time. The latest delay gives identity theft criminals an additional 90 days... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] $24K Cosmetic Surgery Powered by Identity Theft From the "when will they ever learn file", as a follow up to our related 2006 post - a California woman used a novel funding strategy for her plastic surgery desires. It seems, the Berkley identity... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] $1.4 million Identity Theft Fraud Ring Recruited Bank Employees In a sign of the financial services industry turmoil has created fertile ground for identity theft by insiders, a major identity theft fraud ring was recently uncovered that stole over $1.4 million... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Verizon Claims 9 of 10 Corporate Security Breaches Avoidable In one of the more exhaustive studies we've seen lately, Verizon Business Security concluded "nearly nine out of 10 breaches were considered avoidable if security basics had been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Verizon Claims 9 of 10 Corporate Security Breaches Avoidable [Flickr] IdTheftSecrets posted a photo: The study, based on 285 million compromised records from 90 confirmed breaches, suggested many of the data security breaches did not require extensive fixes to plug the leaks. For more... Latest Buzz on Id Theft Secrets For the Buzz from the latest Id Theft Secrets Blog updates, get the free widget to place on your website or start page. Help stop identity thieves from operating from behind the dark veil of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] ID Theft Via Text Messaging Ever resourceful in continuing to extend the reach of their criminal activities, the newest threat now comes from text messaging by identity thieves. This alert to our subscribers is part... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Id Theft Rising Out of Control Identity theft rose nearly 50% during the period of 2007 - 2008 and continues to be one of the fastest growing forms of crime in America. With the recent melt down and ensuing turmoil within the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] 5 Million CheckFree Consumers Warned Against Identity Theft Exposure With the new year's first major security breach, CheckFree issued a consumer disclosure recently warning more consumers were negatively impacted than originally thought. Computer hackers operating... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] 35 Million Data Records Exposed in 2008 to Identity Theft Last year over 35,000,000 personal data records were exposed via 656 separate security breaches representing a 47% increase from 2007. According to a recently released study by the ITRC, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Florida Security Breach Exposes 250,000 Consumer's Social Security Numbers When a test server was made accessible to the internet for over two weeks, Google's indexing service inadvertently made available online the highly sensitive personal data a quarter of a million... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Missing Baylor Laptop Exposes Patients to Identity Theft In Texas, a recently reported laptop theft has resulted in the issuance of a consumer warning notifying an additional 100,000 patients who had limited information stored on the computer. According... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Identity Theft from Inmates Running The Prison Are the inmates running the prison when access to computers by convicted criminals leads to the identity theft of innocent people? As a follow up to our popular series on identity theft... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Woman Steals Daughter's Identity To Become High School Cheerleader Over the years, we've shared with you a number of bizarre examples of identity theft. This latest case just in from the I can't believe it really happened file adds a whole new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Feds Indict 11 in Biggest Ever Identity Theft Case As a follow up to our original 2007 story on the Identity "Theft to the Maxx" large scale data breach effecting 40 million consumers, a federal court this past week charged a fraud gang responsible... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] BoNY 4.5 Million Consumer's Data Loss This just in from the "when will they ever learn" file. The Bank of New York (BNY Mellon) waited 8 weeks after the Connecticut legal requirement to inform the public of this very serious data loss... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Identity Theft Hits Lifelock CEO From His Own Ads In response to dares posed by the CEO of Lifelock, an Arizona firm which has run ads featuring his Social Security Number (SSN), an instance of identity theft fraud was successfully perpetrated... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] LendingTree Sues over Data Breach Two former Vice Presidents of LendingTree are alleged to have stolen customer passwords which subsequently allowed up to 5 home loan lenders to gain unauthorized access to sensitive consumer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Identity Theft Justice Extremes In a bizarre twist to two cases of identity theft, one perpetrator faces a life sentence while another has their previous conviction over turned by the courts. Maryland's highest court... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Identity Theft Ranking of Corporate America Consumers really have no reliable way to determine the relative safety of their business and banking relationships against identity theft. With the lack of widely available public information... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Credit Bureau Alleges Lifelock Identity Theft Service is Fraud Credit-reporting agency Experian has filed a lawsuit against identity theft services company Lifelock, charging it with "misleading advertising and fraud." Additionally, Lifelock, allegedly placed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]] Home

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