Data Breaches

July 4, 2008

• Summary of June 2008 Data Breaches

  Data breaches in June were a bit slower than this years previous months but still left far too many Americans seeking identity theft protection. (…)

June 6, 2008

• May Data Breaches and an Appeal to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

  Data Breaches for May continued the month to month trend of the past few years that increasingly leaves our personal information exposed to identity thieves and other criminals. (…)

May 5, 2008

• 3.5 Million Identities Put at Risk in April

  Identity theft becomes a concern for approximately 3.5 million Americans who had their personal and confidential information compromised in one of Aprils twenty-seven data breaches. (…)

April 7, 2008

• Identity Thieves Steal UCI Students Tax Returns

  Identity thieves have stolen the tax returns of 93 University of California, Irvine (UCI) students and up to 7,ooo students are at risk according to the Orange County Register. (…)

March 31, 2008

• Identity Theft Protection Necessary As Data Breaches Show No Signs of Slowing

  Identity Theft continues to garner media attention, and rightfully so as new identity theft victims are added to the alarming totals daily, but little is actually done to stop a major root cause, the ineffective security of our confidential information. (…)

March 4, 2008

• LifeLock Headlines Identity Theft News in February

  Lifelock continued to make headlines with both good and not so good news. (…)

February 5, 2008

• Data Breaches in January Close with a Bang!

  Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield and Davidson Companies Expose over half a Million in Final Days. (…)

January 25, 2008

• Don't be Fooled, Your Identity Is Not Safe

  Part 4
  2007 Data Breaches Due to Lack of Proper Policies and Procedures
  Data Breaches in part one to three were mostly caused by identity theft criminals who were seeking the personal information of Americans. (…)

January 19, 2008

• Credit Card Data Lost by GE Money Affects 650,000

  The associated press has reported that GE Money, part of General Electric Capital Corp. has mailed letters to 650,000 customers informing them of a Data Breach. (…)

• Don't be Fooled, Your Identity Is Not Safe

  Part 3
  2007 Data Breaches Via Lost or Stolen Backup Tapes, CD's and Hard Drives
  The number of people who have had their personal information exposed in 2007 is staggering. (…)

January 9, 2008

• Don't be Fooled, Your Identity Is Not Safe

  Part 2 2007 Data Breaches via Stolen Laptops and Computers
  It is now known in the criminal underground that Identity Theft is both easy and profitable. (…)

January 1, 2008

• Don't be Fooled, Your Identity Is Not Safe

  Your identity is not safe regardless of the precautions you have taken because your personal information has been entrusted to companies, institutions and governments that do not secure it properly. (…)

September 16, 2007

• Ameritrade Confirms Data Breach: 6.3 Million Customers

  On Friday, September 14th TD Ameritrade confirmed a long suspected data breach involving as many as 6.3 Million customer accounts. (…)