Identity Theft Tips

Identity Theft Is Quickly Becoming One Of The Most Organized And Costly Crimes Of Our Time

Archive for 2007

Photocopiers & ID Theft

I read an interesting article this week on MSNBC:
Now, experts are warning that photocopiers could be a culprit as well.
That’s because most digital copiers manufactured in the past five years have disk drives — the same kind of data-storage mechanism found in computers — to reproduce documents. As a result, the seemingly innocuous machines that [...]



Hackers Compromise Two Million Canadian Visa Card Accounts

From CBC Canada: Stolen Identity
On January 18, 2007, consumers were shaken by news that millions of credit card accounts may have been compromised after hackers stole customer information from computer systems of TJX Cos., the U.S. parent firm of Canadian retailers Winners and HomeSense.
It’s believed that as many as two million Canadian Visa card accounts [...]