November 26, 2008 – 1:05 am
Angelina Leon and her son, Jaime Leon Zamora were arrested November 14, on charges of identity theft, possession of stolen property, conspiracy and committing a felony while released on bail.
The two stole mail from home mailboxes, U.S. Post Office drop boxes and cars and may have committed identity theft against 700 people or more, according [...]
November 25, 2008 – 10:42 am
Starbucks announced yesterday that a laptop containing the personal information of 97,000 employees was stolen October 29. Employees’ names, addresses and Social Security numbers were part of the stolen data.
That’s more than half of Starbucks’ 172,000 employees left jittery over the threat of identity theft.
November 24, 2008 – 12:21 pm
A Revenue Enterprises employee responsible for The Children’s Hospital’s billing was fired after her employers learned she financed her Las Vegas vacation with the credit card belonging to a patient’s parents.
Marcus and Heather Oginsky of Denver gave the Revenue Employee their credit card information when they made a payment by phone for their son’s surgery [...]
November 21, 2008 – 10:50 am
There is a common fallacy that senior citizens are the most common victims of identity theft. While it’s true they make particularly lucrative targets, the age group with the most victims is that within the 18 to 39 brackets.
A subset of that group is college students, and that subgroup accounts for a great deal of [...]
November 20, 2008 – 11:58 am
It’s ironic that the most dangerous identity theft is also the one people know the least about. Mention identity theft, and what usually comes to mind is someone having opened a credit card account in someone else’s name. And, though financial identity theft is more common than medical identity theft, the biggest difference is that [...]
November 19, 2008 – 1:04 pm
Synthetic identity theft might sound like a victimless crime–if the identity is synthetic, there’s not a real person being robbed, right? Wrong.
Synthetic identity theft is the crafting of a new identity by melding bits of information from different people, or by mixing real people’s information with other information that is entirely made up.
It’s a sort [...]
November 18, 2008 – 10:10 am
If you’re among the millions of Americans whose health benefits are managed through Express Scripts, it’s possible that your personal information is being held for ransom in a high-stakes extortion attempt that
According to Express Scripts’ CEO George Paz, early in October they received a letter in which the extortionists demanded money and threatened [...]
November 17, 2008 – 9:17 am
University of Florida College of Dentistry has notified nearly all of 344,482 current and former dental patients affected by a data breach.
College employees were upgrading a server October 3 when they discovered that an unauthorized user had accessed the data and remotely installed software. The hacker was able to access patients’ names, addresses, birthdates and [...]
November 14, 2008 – 1:45 pm
It’s a sad truth, but there is no rock solid method of locking down your electronic data. However, with a few simple maneuvers, you can avert most attempts by would-be thieves. When it comes to avoiding ID theft; password protection has to be your first step. But it only goes so far. By adding encryption, [...]
November 13, 2008 – 1:00 am
Patients in the Houston-based Christus Health Care System have been advised to monitor their credit records after thieves stole two back-up tapes from an employee’s car.
Christus Health Care hasn’t yet determined how many patients are affected, but say the tapes contained names, Social Security numbers, demographic information and some diagnostic codes on hundreds, and maybe [...]
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