News tagged with identity theft
The high price of data breaches
As consumers, we transmit valuable personal information to the companies with which we do business. In doing so, we trust that information will remain secure. Over the past year, however, we have learned of a number of instances ...
Nov 26, 2011 |
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Stanford Hospital privacy breach puts data online
(AP) -- Stanford Hospital in California is blaming a subcontractor used by an outside vendor for a privacy breach that led to the posting online of medical information for thousands of emergency room patients.
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Credit card hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison
Rogelio Hackett, who stole more than half a million credit card numbers used to rack up nearly $40 million in illicit debt, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison and fined $100,000.
Jul 23, 2011 |
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7.5 million Facebook users are under 13: study (Update)
Some 7.5 million of the 20 million minors who used Facebook in the past year were younger than 13, and a million of them were bullied, harassed or threatened on the site, a study released Tuesday said.
May 10, 2011 |
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Researcher finds the psychological effects of identity theft lingers with victims
(PhysOrg.com) -- In January 2010, Joanne McNeal received a series of persistent messages about her email account—seemingly from the account provider itself— seeking “verification” of her name, address ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 20, 2011 |
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White House unveils cyber ID proposal (Update)
The White House unveiled a plan on Friday designed to boost confidence and business in cyberspace through the creation of a single, secure online credential.
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Teenagers, parents and teachers unaware of social networking risks
A report into the legal risks associated with the use of social networking sites (eg. Facebook, myspace) has found that while 95 per cent of Victorian students in years 7 to 10 use social networking sites, nearly 30 per cent ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Google to set up a mobile payment system this year?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile payment is an arrangement that has a lot of potential to make your life easier, but it also has a lot of potential to create issues with identity theft. That is why when a new company ...
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Mich. man faces charges for reading wife's e-mail
(AP) -- A Rochester Hills man who says he learned of his wife's affair by reading her e-mail on their computer faces trial Feb. 7 on felony computer misuse charges.
Dec 27, 2010 |
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Hacker gets 7 years for stealing credit card data
(AP) -- A federal judge in Boston has sentenced a Florida man to seven years in prison for playing a key role in one of the largest theft of credit and debit card numbers in U.S. history.
Mar 30, 2010 |
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UK survey reveals identity theft fears
Researchers from the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London worked together with UK online to conduct a survey of privacy attitudes and behaviours. Focusing on our concerns ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Software sniffs out criminals by the shape of their nose
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget iris and fingerprint scans - scanning noses could be a quicker and easier way to verify a person's identity, according to scientists from the University of the West of England and University ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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New technology won't prevent information security breaches, say ISU experts
(PhysOrg.com) -- The story's become all too familiar in today's digital world. A security breach provides a hacker access to a computer system containing the personal information of 80,000 people.
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Identifying ID theft and fraud
If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has warned him not to use internet banking because of the threat of online fraud, then what hope is there for the average Jo? The results of research published in a forthcoming issue ...
Oct 14, 2009 |
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FBI smashes US-Egypt cyber 'phishing' ring
Investigators in the United States and Egypt have smashed a computer "phishing" identity theft scam described as the biggest cyber-crime investigation in US history, officials said Wednesday.
Oct 07, 2009 |
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