Submitted by Mary M. on Tues, 9/02/2008 – 10:47am. With ID fraud on the rise, the assumption is you’ll lose money which can be claimed back. But Simon Bunce lost his job, and his father cut off contact, when he was arrested after an ID fraudster used his credit card details on a child porn […]
The number of reported data breaches has been soaring, with the figure from the first six months of 2008 some 69 percent higher than the number from the identical period last year. Among those were little-known recent breaches of Facebook, H&R Block and BearingPoint. The report from the non-profit San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center […]
Insurance benefit letters sent to wrong addresses by Blue Cross and Blue Shield reveal claim histories, open door to ID theft.
Personal information for current and former employees of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. in several states is missing, the nation’s largest brewer said Friday. Anheuser-Busch said in a statement that several laptops were recently stolen from one of its office buildings in the St. Louis area, where it has its headquarters. It said at least one of […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A woman has sued the call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, claiming Ashley Dupre used her lost driver’s license to appear on a “Girls Gone Wild” video. A federal lawsuit filed this month by Amber Arpaio seeks unspecified monetary compensation for defamation and invasion of […]
Troubled rapper DMX has been accused of using a false identity to avoid paying hospital medical expenses. The star — real name Earl Simmons — was charged in Arizona on Tuesday with one count of theft and one count of stealing someone else’s identity. Authorities claim Simmons gave medical officials the fake name of Troy […]
Submitted by Matt C. on Tues, 7/29/2008 – 10:47am. Original article written March 2008. Wichita Police have arrested a man and a woman after the man walked into a patrol substation and reported that he was an undercover agent who had assumed the identity of someone else. Sergeant Bruce Watts says the man explained where […]
Submitted by Mari J Frank on Thurs, 7/24/2008 – 12:44am. Dear Fellow Identity Theft Victims, You have experienced a tremendous violation! I know how it feels because I lived the “Identity Theft Nightmare” which lasted almost a year, and took 500 hours of my time. I wrote 90 letters (return receipt requested) to the various […]
Louisville,Ky. (WHAS11) – It’s proof that identify theft can strike at the places where you should feel most safe. Erika Bradford’s facing charges of ID theft after allegedly stealing patient’s social security numbers at the doctor’s office where she worked. Bradford then opened credit cards in the victim’s names. We’ve all filled them out – […]
Submitted by Matt C. on Tues, 7/22/2008 – 10:47am. I used to work for Boeing in Wichita. Boeing sold the Wichita division and all of the workers, including me, to another company. We still did the same work, but Boeing was just one customer of several. Nearly a year after the sale, someone at Boeing […]