This scumbag named Scott Levine was convicted last August of breaking into computer data warehouse company Acxiom's servers and downloading gigabytes of confidential consumer data. He then used this to spam the hell out of everyone. He has now been
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ChoicePoint has settled for $15 million in the theft of data charges brought against it. The events occurred in February 2005 when 145,000 customers were put at risk because of their lax security. Their unwillingness to divulge that their system
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OK who's the idiot at Ameriprise Financial who allows employees to walk around with 158,000 of their customer's sensitive data on a laptop computer? This is just the most asinine breach of security imaginable. A freakin' laptop! So all you
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Marriot had about 206,000 of it's members credit card and Social Security numbers disappear in November. They have reported this to the secret service. Now with the credit card numbers it's not as much of an issue -- though it
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First there was $350,000 stolen from New Yorkers by employee's at an India call center, then 700,000 customers put at risk by PNC, Bank of America, Wachovia and Commerce bank and then 3.9 million Citigroup customers put at risk by
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I'm wondering if this has been going on for decades and is now just being discovered or if these companies are just totally incompetent. Citigroup has reported that 3.9 Million customers are potentially at risk due to backup tapes that
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Over 700,000 customers personal information was stolen from Wachovia, Commerce Bank, PNC Bank and Bank of America. It was stolen by employee's of the banks and then in some cases sold to collection agencies. To remedy the problems 2 of
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Ahh, the joys of handing your sensitive information to some company outside the United States. I have an idea, lets give Social Security numbers, bank account access and enough information to steal millions of people's identities to a country that
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A 35-year-old help desk employee has been sentenced to 14 years for Identity Theft. Philip Cummings stole personal information from more than 30,000 customers and then passed that information onto criminals. Losses to the victims are estimated at $50-$100 million.
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