As soon as Mark Kim found out his personal information was compromised in a data breach at Target last year, the 36-year-old tech worker signed up for the retailer’s free credit monitoring offer so he would be notified if someone …
Tennessee’s Highway Patrol and Shelby County officials are announcing dozens of arrests following an identity theft investigation. A news conference was held Tuesday afternoon in Memphis to discuss details of the investigation, which was done by the state Department of …
An embezzler who served time in federal prison was arrested in a scheme to steal at least $8.5 million from Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. to finance a lavish lifestyle, the FBI said. Following Friday’s arrest, Marvin Caukin of Calabasas, Calif., was …
In this increasingly digital world, many Northwest residents worry about the threat of online identity theft, but according to the latest poll results from Seattle-based PEMCO Insurance, about three-quarters say they continue to bank online anyway. And while the poll …
Jefferson County has spent years erasing Social Security numbers from some public records in an effort to protect against identity theft. Before officials began the effort in 2010, hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers in the state’s largest county …
For the second consecutive year, the Travelers Consumer Risk Index has found one in four U.S. consumers believe that today’s world is very risky, with six in 10 respondents reporting their feeling that the world is growing riskier. This annual …
The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws and renewed a push for a single national standard. Most states have laws that require retailers …
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, citing the recent massive data theft at retailer Target Corp, urged Congress on Monday to enact a national standard for notifying consumers about such breaches. “This would empower the American people to protect themselves if …
She was just another face in the crowd. But when Luz Maria Amezcua-Valencia applied for a Kansas driver’s license, it was her face, and the Kansas Department of Revenue’s facial recognition software, that did her in. That software sorted through …
The government says 1 out of every 14 Americans age 16 or older was a target or a victim of identity theft, a crime imposing a heavy emotional toll on many of its victims. According to a national household survey …