LifeLock Command Center protects more than my identity
I’ve been a LifeLock member for almost three years now. I’ve always been satisfied with their service and felt like I received effective identity theft protection at a reasonable price, and felt more secure for having it.
I upgraded my LifeLock membership to Command Center recently, and feel better than ever, especially because my Command Center membership provides me with a service I never expected to receive from an identity theft protection company: a list of sex offenders in my neighborhood.
No other crime frightens women as rape does. I doubt there is a woman in America who does not know a rape survivor, or someone who was molested as a child. An estimated 1 in 6 women has been raped, and another woman in America is raped every two minute. As parents, most of us believe we would kill to protect our children, yet an estimated 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 7 boys is molested. Read More
The holiday season brings families and friends together. It’s a blessing for some, but for others … not so much. These are the families whose relatives and friends include at least one drug addict, alcoholic, convict, compulsive shopper or gambler or a get-rich-quick scammer. In other words, these are the families who need to worry about ID theft.
This is the time of year when all the Top 10, Best of, and Worst of lists come out. And just for the folks who worry about data breaches, information security, identity theft and institutional stupidity, ComputerWorld has rolled out their 2009 Data Breach Hall of Shame.
A data breach is never a good thing, but when the data breach isn’t discovered for three years, and then those responsible wait two months before notifying those affected and at risk of ID theft … Well, 24,000 University of Notre Dame employees are confronting that situation.
Members will be receiving mail from BlueCross BlueShield any day now, but it won’t be Christmas cards. Instead, they’ll be getting letters warning them that they are at a heightened risk from ID theft because their personal, financial and even medical information may be among the millions of records missing after 57 computer hard drives were stolen from a Chattanooga storage.
