According to a USA Today article, the FTC discovered that Americans from 18 to 24 years old were the leading age group in terms of identity theft claims in 2005. Now that students are back in school for the fall and winter semesters, here are some suggestions for keeping safe from the threat of ID [...]
How could something like this be allowed to happen?
A tough lesson on medical privacy - Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay
A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients’ confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money.To show she was serious, the woman sent [...]
Another employer responsible for protecting employees information safe and secure has lost the data stored on laptops:
Starbucks loses 4 laptops with employee data
Starbucks Corp. on Friday said four laptops, two of which contained the names and Social Security numbers of about 60,000 U.S. employees, are missing from its corporate headquarters.
The information on the laptops is [...]
How can you protect your identity from being stolen by your boss? This is one scary story:
CEO of MSP Provider Compulinx Under Arrest
Terrence D. Chalk, 44, of White Plains was arraigned in federal court in White Plains, along with his nephew, Damon T. Chalk, 35, after an FBI investigation turned up the curious lending and [...]