Online Records May Aid ID Theft
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Colin L. Powell's Social Security number is out there. So is Troy Aikman's.
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Eager to get into the identity-theft business? Don't bother breaking into a government employee's house or staking out an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. A recent study shows that a simple shopping jaunt on eBay or in a local used-tech store will pay off in personal info over half the time.
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Big companies exploring ways to verify identities online
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Federal regulators warn that the  Internet is the thriving frontier for identity theft, but 72  percent of the thefts of personal information for scams last  year was done offline, a new report says.
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Portal says DomainKey use will protect users from ID theft and phishing scams.
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Next Monday, researchers plan to release the first-ever analysis of U.S. Secret Service case information on identity theft.The study provides new information about the victims of ID theft as well as the criminals and the methods they use, according to Gary Gordon, executive director of Utica College&#39;s Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP), which is writing the report.&quot;CIMIP was interested in filling gaps in the knowledge about identity theft and believed that an exploratory study of law enforcement cases with an identity theft component would provide some new information,&quot; Gordon said in an interview. This research is unique because it looks across all three aspects -- the crime, victim, and offender -- and across the lifecycle of the crime, from the time the crime was detected through arrest and the disposition of the case.&quot;This is the first time the Secret Service has permitted such a review of its closed case files, he said.The college has been working with a number of partners, including the Secret Service, IBM, and the FBI, since the Center&#39;s creation in mid-2006 to study the methods used by ID thieves and to help corporations and law enforcement prevent this type of crime.According to Javelin Strategy &amp; Research, identity theft cost U.S.businesses and consumers an estimated $49.3 billion in 2006.The study will be released Monday at a Utica-sponsored crime conference being held in McLean, Virginia. Utica College is a small private college based in Utica, New York, that offers programs in economic crime and fraud management.Historically, the Secret Service has been chartered with protecting the U.S. president and cracking down on counterfeiters, but in the 1980s its role was expanded, and it now investigates financial and identity theft crimes.Monday&#39;s study will include Secret Service data on &quot;insider threats, points of compromise, and vulnerabilities,&quot; Utica&#39;s media alert said.Representatives from the Secret Service were not immediately able to comment on the study.
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Rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Educate customers or lose them.
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When it comes to digital data, anyone can find out who you are and what you are doing.
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New online services could make you an even more inviting target for privacy attacks. Here's how.
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Reports of data theft often conjure up images of malicious hackers breaking into remote databases to filch Social Security numbers, credit card records and other personal information.
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QUINCY, Mass. - John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped.
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State officials say it&#39;s not clear if names and Social Security numbers were accessed or stolen but urge individuals to take precautions against identity theft.
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By Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post Staff Writer  Last June, Google launched a service offering a one-click method of paying for purchases that minimizes the risk of credit card information being stolen off a Web site.
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Attorney Eric J. Sinrod finds that the facts belie the general belief that ID theft is rampant. Still, victory is a way off.
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Robert Vamosi talks with data loss expert Dan Geer about identity theft.
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Days after getting busted for attempting to get tech support on a printer he allegedly stole in an incident believed to have exposed the personal info of 500 driver's-license applicants, the Missouri man may have had his personal data inadvertently exposed in a data breach. Timothy Scott Short was previously a suspect in an ID-theft incident.
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A service launched last week that aims to help online users determine whether their credit card and Social Security numbers may have been compromised is running into skepticism about how secure -- and safe -- it is.