Identity Theft Cases, Stories & News
Toronto Police believe the city elite – CEO’s and wealthy entrepreneurs – are having their identities cloned by criminals who are using Linkedin and similar social networking sites to find their victims. According to a report in today’s Toronto Sun: Toronto Police fraud officers said several “high profile” members of the city’s business elite have [...]
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A new study has found that a child in America is 51 times more likely to have their identity stolen than an adult. Carnegie Mellon Cylab looked at over 40,000 juveniles and found 4,311 of them had been a victim of identity theft. That’s a huge 10.2% for our kids while as an adult we [...]
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UCLA has contacted over 16,000 patients and warned them they could be a target of medical identity theft after an external hard drive with their medical details was stolen from a Doctor’s home. Luckily the hard drive was encrypted but unfortunately the password was written on a piece of paper which is also missing. The [...]
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Tax fraud using identity theft is growing faster than government and law enforcment agencies can handle it. That’s what a House oversight subcommittee has been told today in Washington according to report on ABC News. ”As of Aug. 31 of this year, IRS incident tracking reports indicated that the numbers of taxpayers affected by identity [...]
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