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[MAARS News] Citigroup did little to assist victims of privacy breach, critics ...: Citigroup, the third-largest U.S. bank, included a sample of the letter it sent to holders of 703 accounts in Maine, in a filing with the office of state Attorney General William Schneider. Maine is one of a number of states that require organizations to report when personal data is compromised.

[Identity Theft Solution] Monday Morning News Kick Off: IMF Gets Hacked; Turkish Gov Arrests ...: Spain: Police Confirms Anonymous Retaliatory Web Attack Spanish police confirmed Monday that a group of hackers tied to a series of security breaches on websites across the world, attacked its main website soon after midnight Sunday, in apparent retaliation for the recent arrest of three alleged members of the group. A police spokesman said the attack by the Anonymous group of hackers left the www.policia.es website offline for a few minutes at around 2 a.m.

[home security] Monitoring Services | Citigroup Did Little To Assist Victims Of ...: Citigroup, the third-largest U.S. bank, enclosed a representation of the e-mail it sent to holders of 703 accounts in Maine, in a filing with the office of state Attorney General William Schneider. Maine is a of a number of states that need organizations to report when personal information is compromised.

[Identity Theft] The Menace Of Identity Theft | Identity Theft: In the electronic realm, the victim’s identity information is surreptitiously recorded during online transactions by logging their keystrokes by seducing them into cons like phishing. The typical use of stolen identity credentials is to carry out online purchases that are billed to the victim and stolen identity information to open fraudulent bank accounts for obtaining loans on the victim’s name.

[Latest News] After breach, Citigroup scrimps on ID theft protections: After a massive data breach last month, Citigroup did not offer its hacked clients the same degree of identity-theft protection that many other companies provide, drawing criticism from privacy advocates.

[Veriphyr] Veriphyr: Nurse Accused of Identity Theft at 5 Hospitals in Colorado: "the hospital was notified by the Westminster Police that [the nurse] was suspected of stealing patient demographic information from other hospitals and allegedly using it to engage in identity theft. That police investigation determined that a computer at [the hospital] had been used in one of the illegal activities." - Boulder Community Hospital

[The Security Blog » Latest InfoSec Threat Research & News | TheSecurityBlog.com] Data Breaches Up, Lost Records Down – Security Threat Research News: There were 760 data breaches recorded in 2010, compared to 140 breaches in 2009. However, there were approximately four million records stolen in 2010, as opposed to 144 million stolen in 2009.

[Backtogeek's Technology Journey] Backtogeek's Technology Journey » Blog Archive » Dropbox Breach ...: You can learn more about identity theft at the FTC's Identity Theft Site http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/ . * We have made arrangements for you to have free access to a credit monitoring service. ...

[The Security Blog » Latest InfoSec Threat Research & News | TheSecurityBlog.com] Judge Says Its OK to Post Social Security ... - The Security Blog: According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were at least 662 data breaches in 2010, which exposed more than 16 million records. Nearly two-thirds of breaches exposed Social

[Identity Theft 911 Blog] 5 Reasons Why Obama's Breach Notification Policy Makes Me Grumpy ...: However, considering it is now becoming the default username for countless online services (One of two levels of identification/authentication used for many services in addition to a password) you can see how having a more expansive definition could be useful, even within the limited scope of consumer protection based privacy that take in the United States…

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