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Monthly Archives: August 2009

LifeLock adds new, improved service in response to Experian lawsuit

August 31, 2009 – 12:05 pm

When life gives LifeLock lemons, they create a new service that surpasses the old one.
Credit reporting agency Experian filed a lawsuit against LifeLock last year claiming they had no right to ask for fraud alerts as representatives of their 1.5 million LifeLock members. Last week, a California applied a strict interpretation of the legislation establishing [...]

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Social networking, file-sharing and ID theft risks

August 28, 2009 – 11:52 am

What do social networking users have in common with cigarette smokers? Members of both groups know they’re engaging in risky behaviors but don’t take steps they know will protect them.
The majority of social network users polled by AVG Technologies said they were concerned about becoming victims of online crime such as malware attacks and identity [...]

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LifeLock eRecon™: Heartland, Hannaford data breaches mean lower prices for stolen credit card info

August 21, 2009 – 1:53 pm

It’s all a matter of supply and demand. Pickpockets and small-time hackers were once the only source for a meager supply of stolen credit cards and credit card data, and prices were correspondingly high; in the mid-1970s, buyers routinely paid as much as $20 for a single credit card record.
But that was then. Now the [...]

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ID thief used stolen identities for penis enlargement, breast implant surgeries.

August 13, 2009 – 11:03 am

I’ve written before about female ID thieves who stole identities to pay for breast augmentations, liposuctions and nose jobs, and I’ve always privately cringed to think women are so vain or feel so pressured to conform to society’s standards of beauty that they’d resort to ID theft.
Now, thanks to Jose Amid Juarbe, of Philadelphia, I [...]

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LifeLock review: Wachovia bank employee, 2 others indicted on ID theft, bank conspiracy charges

August 7, 2009 – 10:30 am

A Wachovia Bank employee and two co-conspirators have been indicted for stealing customers’ account information. Charges include aggravated identity theft and bank fraud conspiracy.
Yolanda Denise Scott, 31, worked in Wachovia Bank’s exceptions department and, in 2007, allegedly fed stolen account numbers, signature cards, routing numbers and personally identifying information to Schnikia Scruggs, 37. Scruggs, in [...]

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Child ID theft: Deceased infant’s identity used for 17 years. Ohio man convicted of ID theft.

August 6, 2009 – 3:23 pm

The records show that Timothy Welland Hyde was born prematurely on February 3, 1976. He died nine days later and was buried close to his two brothers, both of whom were stillborn. His short life made him the perfect target for identity theft.
In 1992, Joseph D. Bonanno, of northeast Ohio, began using the baby’s name [...]

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