Monthly Archives: January 2009

LifeLock discounts can help you protect your elderly, ill parents

Tara Campbell, of Crisfield, MD stole the identities of three elderly residents at the Lakeside Assisted Living during the three months she worked there in 2007 and 2008. One of her victims has Alzheimer’s Disease, and another has since died. She used their information to take out credit cards and charged more than $8,600 to [...]

Veterans Affairs to pay $20 million settlement after massive 2006 data breach

Veterans affected by the titanic data breach at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2006 will receive $20 million in a settlement reached yesterday. The data breach exposed the personal information of 28 million former and current service members.

LifeLock jobs in a “paradise” culture

“Do what you should and not what you can.”
That’s the embodiment of LifeLock culture. That’s the way they train their employees to treat their members, and that’s the way LifeLock treats their employees.

Too many data breaches for you NOT to have LifeLock

A good bit of my identity theft and data breach info comes from A Chronology of Data Breaches, which is compiled by the good folks at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. I periodically cruise through their site, checking to see what groups of numbskulls has lost how many records recently.
This week there have been eight newly reported [...]

With LifeLock, financial security protected; heartbreak … not so much

I’ve known a lot of women who’ve said they’re unlucky in love. When all else failed several of them tried to improve their odds of meeting Mr. Right by enlisting the help of the matchmaking professionals at Match.com. With 15 million users and 20,000 new people signing up each day, their chances of finding a [...]

Is LifeLock valid?

The short answer is an emphatic “Yes”. The long answer is that LifeLock is not only valid, it’s the best, most comprehensive, most innovative identity theft protection service available. All of which explains why LifeLock is the ID protection service chosen by nearly 1.5 million Americans. And, of course, they have the Better Business Bureau’s [...]

You need LifeLock to protect yourself from increasing identity theft in this troubled economy

It’s January–a time to make improvements in our lives. If you made a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking, lose weight and good for you, good luck and keep trying. But if you didn’t make a resolution to sign up for identity theft protection you better get on it right away because it looks like [...]