Excerpted from ID Theft Alerts for October, 2008 Be Prepared for Mandatory Compliance of Federal Red FlagsLaw Identity theft continues to accelerate, and protecting against it has become a multimillion dollar business. A survey conducted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2006 estimated that 8.3 million American consumers, or 3.7 percent of the adult…
Excerpted from ID Theft Alerts for October, 2008 Be Prepared for Mandatory Compliance of Federal Red FlagsLaw Identity theft continues to accelerate, and protecting against it has become a multimillion dollar business. A survey conducted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2006 estimated that 8.3 million American consumers, or 3.7 percent of the adult…
Excerpted from Shred Nations ID Theft Alert September, 2008 If You Don’t Need It Don’t Keep It There’s a school of thought in information technology that encourages businesses to save customers’ data — which may include names, addresses and credit-card numbers — because it may come in handy for market research. But this practice is…
Excerpted from Secured Destruction Business Magazine August 6, 2008 DOJ Charges 11 With Massive ID Theft Ring The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 11 people who allegedly are involved in a widespread ring that involved the hacking of nine U.S. retailers and the theft of more than 40 million credit and debit car numbers….
Patient documents found dumped in trash Last updated on: 1/22/2008 9:03:09 PM by Cara Sapida LEE COUNTY: When you visit the doctor’s office, you expect your personal information to be kept private, but we discovered documents carelessly tossed in the trash. The documents contained sensitive information that put patient identities at risk. Eighty-one-year old Richard…
ID PAPERS IN GARBAGE By PATRICK GALLAHUE, Transit Reporter January 7, 2008 — Workers at a Queens bus depot are sputtering mad after reams of papers with their personal information were tossed into the trash. The workers claim that the files thrown out include “Social Security numbers, copies of driver’s licenses, grievance papers and disciplinary…