Data breach reports: Do you know where your data is right now?
Take a minute to think about how many companies keep records on you. I personally have four credit cards, four investment accounts, four utility accounts, two bank accounts, a savings account and an...
View ArticleTaking Action Against Identity Theft
Like Gandhi said: "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Since my world revolves around credit, personal finance and identity theft, I often find myself fighting for consumer rights...
View ArticleData farming: Is your personal information the cash crop of the future?
Emma, a dedicated reader of this blog, emailed us this morning with some concerns about a recent USA Today article called "Schools give student data to banks." In this report, USA Today uncovered the...
View ArticleConsumer’s Union Petition Aimed at Stronger Financial Privacy Laws
If you are tired of feeling helpless every time you hear about the latest consumer data breach, you may want to sign Consumers Union’s petition to Congress calling for stronger financial privacy laws....
View ArticleIt’s Monday, Do you Know Where your Data is?
This seems like one of those situations where you have to decide between the risk you know and the risk you don’t. Although, you don’t really have a choice in this case. A press release from...
View ArticleWhen Retailers Put Your Identity at Risk
Let’s say you did the smart thing and bought yourself a shredder so no identity thief could dig your personal information out of the trash. Wouldn’t it be funny if the store then tossed your...
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Identity Theft Watchdog Scores one for the Consumer
If the government is short-sighted enough to post citizens’ personal identifying information on the Internet, then citizens are well within their Constitutional rights to protest that practice by...
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Poll: Americans Understand Online Tracking. And They Don’t Like It.
Most Americans understand that their activities online are constantly being monitored. And they don’t like it one bit. New survey results detailing Americans’ aversion to being tracked online could...
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77 Million People Affected by Playstation Hack
Now even your video games can be hacked. Sony announced recently that all 77 million people who use their PlayStations to play online video games may have had their names, and maybe their credit card...
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Game Over. Sony’s PlayStation Network Gets Hacked
By Identity Theft 911 On April 26, Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) announced more bad news regarding an outage that occurred between April 17 and April 19 – customers’ information, including email...
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Olympic-Sized Mistake: Which Companies Dropped the Security Baton?
By Brian McGinley In the spirit of the Olympic Games under way this summer in London, we’ve opted to award gold, silver and bronze medals to companies and government institutions for their performance...
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The Data-Free Existence: Is It Possible?
With more public institutions and private companies collecting data about customers, it’s no surprise that Americans are trying to tighten up their presence on the Web. After all, there’s a lot of...
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Equifax Settles Claim It Wrongfully Sold Homeowner Data
Between early 2008 and early 2010, one of the best-known names in credit reporting sold data on certain delinquent homeowners to third parties, and that information was then re-sold. However, two of...
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MasterCard to Begin Selling Customer Data
Many consumers use their credit and debit cards on a daily basis to make all sorts of purchases, and now it seems one of the world’s largest processors of those purchases is willing to sell consumer...
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Medical ID Theft Problem Only Getting Bigger
These days, consumers may pay a lot of attention to the ways in which they face potential problems related to identity theft, such as credit card fraud or someone gaining access to their personal...
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Many Feel Need for More Online Identity Protection
Consumers nationwide now have a wealth of information about themselves listed online in various places, some of which they know about, and others they don’t. As such, many now want to do more to...
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The Surprising Way Debt Collectors Know Where You Work
It is “perhaps one of the most powerful and private databases of American’s personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records, covering more than one-third of US...
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Businesses Falling Short on Protecting Your Shared Data
Identity theft and data breaches have become two major problems for consumers in recent years as more information is digitized, and more chances to expose it come along. But now new research suggests...
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80% of Data Breaches Require Little Skill to Complete
There is a large and growing risk of data breaches affecting businesses of all sizes, and the unfortunate truth of the matter is that many of these companies simply aren’t doing enough to adequately...
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3 Reasons Your Medical Records Are at Risk
When hospitals find themselves in the middle of a breach, they usually prioritize improving their security to prevent further security breach incidents. In addition to defending themselves against...
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