Posts Tagged ‘Identity Theft’
TrustedID’s Risk Rating Service
Score Helps Consumers Prevent Identity Theft by Calculating Their Risk and Suggesting Steps to Reduce It. San Francisco, Calif. – October 27, 2009 : TrustedID, the nation’s leading provider of identity theft prevention solutions, today announced the immediate availability of its new Identity Threat Score. This risk rating service helps consumers reduce their chances of [...]
Twitter Was Hacked, Again!
The San Francisco-based company, Twitter, has become victim of a security breach for the third time. In this latest case, a hacker got the password for an employee’s personal e-mail account, possibly by guessing or by correctly answering a security question. He then worked from there to steal confidential company documents. Most social security sites [...]
Identity Theft Top Complaint
FTC: Identity Theft Top Consumer Complaint in 2008 – FOX NEWS According to a report issued by the Federal Trade Commission, identity theft accounted for 26 percent of all consumer complaints received in 2008. The report says among the most common forms of identity theft, credit-card fraud was tops at 20 percent. Following close behind [...]
What exactly is identity theft?
Here is a basic explanation of identity theft from the U.S. Treasury Dept. Identity theft is a fraud committed or attempted using the identifying information of another person without their permission, without their authority. The F.A.C.T. act, the fair and accurate transactions act, defines identity theft in that way. And it is important because the [...]