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Identity fraud / theft

Article | 30/06/2011 Senators push for privacy, data security legislation
Democratic members of a Senate committee promised Wednesday to push hard for new online privacy protections and for legislation that would require com...
Article | 22/06/2011 Senator: New cybersecurity regulations needed for banks
Current regulations aren't enough to warn customers and protect them against data breaches at financial institutions, one U.S. senator said during a h...
Article | 18/06/2011 German men sentenced for hacking Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre
Two German men were sentenced Thursday in a Duisberg court for hacking computers containing material belonging to Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre and other musicia...
Article | 3/06/2011 IRS: Top 10 things every taxpayer should know about identity theft
As part of a look at the impact of identity theft and the Internal Revenue Service, watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office issued the IRS' ...
Article | 4/05/2011 FTC settles data breach charges against two firms
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will require two companies -- one providing payroll and human resources services and another providing immigration l...
Article | 28/04/2011 The Sony PlayStation Network breach: An identity-theft bonanza
The massive Sony PlayStation Network data breach that exposed personal and password information -- and possibly credit cards -- of an estimated 77 mil...
Article | 22/04/2011 US man pleads guilty to $36.6 million worth of ID theft
A Georgia man connected to US$36.6 million in credit card fraud pleaded guilty Thursday to trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated iden...
Article | 29/03/2011 Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit
Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they're now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with custom...
Article | 26/03/2011 ID thief sentenced to more than 16 years in prison
An identity thief who used a people search website to confirm stolen Social Security numbers has been sentenced to 16 years and seven months in prison...
Article | 9/03/2011 UK banks report lower online banking and card payment losses
U.K. banks reported sharply lower levels of online banking fraud and counterfeit cards in 2010, a sign the industry may be getting better at deflectin...
Article | 9/03/2011 FTC: ID theft again tops consumer complaints
Reports of identity theft topped the list of consumer complaints to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2010, the 11th straight year that ID theft ha...
Article | 4/03/2011 Prison for four who ran credit card fraud market
Four men who ran what U.K. police say was the largest English-language criminal forum for selling stolen credit card numbers and the tools to steal da...
Article | 9/02/2011 Identity theft down but cost skyrockets
Identity theft related to credit and debit cards dropped by 28 per cent in 2010 over 2009 -- but the out-of-pocket cost to victimized consumers rose b...
Article | 4/02/2011 FTC settles complaints against credit report resellers
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved proposed settlements of complaints against three credit report resellers after the agency accused them ...
Article | 14/01/2011 Visa beefs up fraud detection technology
Visa is targeting better fraud detection, through investments in modelling software.

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