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Identity theft focus of collaborative meeting BY RUTH JUSTIS 3/15/2007 – Identity theft is big business — to the tune of 50 million people losing data over the last five months. “Your Social Security Number is becoming as valuable as cash to thieves,” Mary Eddins, identity theft risk management specialist for Pre-Paid Legal Services, told…

Identity Theft: Do Your Employees Have Too Much Access? When she was out, packages started arriving that were addressed to unknown recipients. Her boss sent them back. But on another day when the receptionist was out, a delivery person told the owner that one of the reclaimed packages was part of a potential fraud investigation.…

Identity theft is on the rise at an alarming rate Craig Belcher 3/14/2007 – Abingdon VA. (rushprnews) 03/14/2007 – In 2006 there was a total of $56.6 billion loss that was attributed to identity theft. It has been reported that 90% of the compromises had occurred offline. It was also determined that a vast majority…

Identity Theft Up 50% Since 2003 emarketer 3/9/2007 – Identity thieves hit 15 million Americans in the 12 months ending mid-2006, according to a new survey by Gartner. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported 9.9 million American adult identity theft victims in 2003, indicating that since then such crime has jumped 50%. Victims were taken…

ID theft forecast: Gloomy today, worse tomorrow Computerworld 3/7/2007 – March 07, 2007 (Computerworld) — Virtually every trend line for identity theft is bad news, a research analyst said today as she released a survey showing that 15 million Americans were victimized during a recent 12-month span. For the year-long period that ended last August,…

Identity Theft and Employer Liability The Federal Bureau of Investigation calls identity theft an “increasingly insidious and pervasive problem” that can threaten virtually anyone. More ominously, identity theft “costs American businesses and consumers a reported $50 billion a year, causes untold headaches for an estimated 10 million U.S. victims annually, and even makes it easier…

Stolen mail can lead to identity theft KENS 5 Eyewitness News 2/24/2007 – Web Posted: 02/24/2007 01:13 AM CST Fred Lozano KENS 5 Eyewitness News If your mail is stolen, your identity could be stolen as well, and that’s troubling some Northeast San Antonio residents after a rash of mail thefts. Amanda Scheel must drive…

Identity theft can happen Gannett News Service 2/21/2007 – Here’s what you should do if it happens to you. February 21, 2007 Post Comment Zoom Photo Gannett News Service Each year, more than 10 million people are victims of identity theft. Would you know what to do if your identity was stolen? Each year, more…

Tax Season Leads to Increased Risk for Identity Theft PR Newswire 2/21/2007 – Tips for Storing and Destroying Sensitive Documents ITASCA, Ill., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Each year consumers spend many hours preparing taxes hoping they don’t owe the government money. But what many fail to realize is that the government isn’t the only one…

New Yorkers are more likely to be targets of identity theft, according to a new study. Fox News 2/21/2007 – NEW YORK — New Yorkers, especially around New York City, and Californians, especially around Los Angeles, are more likely to be targets of identity theft, according to a new study. The study released Wednesday by…