Media reports about online e-mail identity theft like the incident with Epsilon Marketing services often take the spotlight when it comes to ID theft, but the Better Business Bureau reminds consumers that most identity theft still occurs off-line when people neglect regular shredding schedules. Although online hackers and phishing scams dominate media headlines, a report ...
Complaints about identity theft in Florida dropped slightly last year, but the state still had the highest ID-theft complaint rate in the country, the U.S. government said Tuesday. ID theft complaints ebbed nearly 5 percent in the Sunshine State in 2010, the second straight year fewer people have reported being targeted by identity thieves, according ...
By the time Carlos Hernandez turned 18, little did he know his credit was trashed. Since the age of 9, he had obtained a mortgage, bought cars, obtained credit cards — and racked up loads debt. He had a criminal record, too — not his own — which kept him out of the Navy. But ...
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that 662 data breaches occurred during 2010 — though the actual instances of information theft are much higher, according to trade journal InformationSecurity. The ITRC took the opportunity to highlight the apparent lack of transparency regarding data breach reporting. “Other than breaches reported by the media and a ...