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Hacking It
Sun StaffAvi Rubin is known for annoying large companies and important people. Two years ago, the Johns Hopkins University professor first alerted the country to troubling vulnerabilities in electronic voting, much to the consternation of election officials and...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Science, Computer Crime, Banking, Corporate Officers
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Data broker hires U.S. security official
Associated PressATLANTA - Data broker ChoicePoint Inc., whose enormous consumer-information file was breached last fall, said yesterday that it has hired a top official at the government agency that oversees airport screening to review the way the company screens its...Tags: Encino, Stock Market, Judges, Lawyers, Transportation
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Insurers offering policies for ID theft
Los Angeles TimesAfter someone used Robert Nighan's credit card to charge $2,000 worth of golf clubs in California, the insurance executive got an idea. Nighan - who doesn't play golf and lives in Hartford, Conn. - figured out a way to make crime pay legally: Sell an...Tags: Chubb Corporation, Fraud, Lawyers, Companies and Corporations, Clubs and Associations
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Huge theft of identity data could have victims in Md.
Sun StaffData collection company ChoicePoint Inc. said yesterday that it will notify 2,750 Marylanders who may have been victimized in what privacy experts said could become one of the largest identity theft cases ever. ChoicePoint said it is in the process of...Tags: Fraud, Lawyers, Companies and Corporations, Consumers, Corporate Crime
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ID theft coverage draws criticism
Times Staff WriterAfter someone used Robert Nighan's credit card to charge $2,000 worth of golf clubs in California, the insurance executive got an idea. Nighan — who doesn't golf and lives in Hartford, Conn. — figured out a way to legally make crime pay: Sell...Tags: Chubb Corporation, Fraud, Lawyers, Companies and Corporations, Clubs and Associations
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2 executives of ChoicePoint under scrutiny
Associated PressATLANTA -Embattled data broker ChoicePoint Inc. said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating stock sales by its top two executives. The company also announced that it is strictly limiting sales to small businesses of...Tags: Sales, Fraud, Stock Market, Small Businesses, NYSE
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40 million credit card numbers are at risk
Los Angeles TimesIn the largest reported breach of personal data, hackers infiltrated the computers at a credit card processing center and stole as many as 40 million card numbers, MasterCard International disclosed yesterday. MasterCard said card numbers and...Tags: Fraud, Computer Crime, Data Protection, Consumers, Corporate Crime
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Identity thieves apparently hit clothing retailer
Associated PressNEW YORK - The apparent theft of data from the popular clothing retailer Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. is forcing banks and credit card issuers to notify thousands of consumers that their credit card information might have been exposed. HSBC North America, a...Tags: Clothing, Criminals, Reed Elsevier, Stock Market, Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation
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Missing data is latest in rash of breaches
Sun StaffWhen CitiFinancial, the Baltimore-based consumer-finance division of Citigroup Inc., put a box of computer tapes that documented the financial habits of its customers on a UPS truck in Weehawken, N.J., last month, the shipment represented one routine step...Tags: Fraud, Iron Mountain Incorporated, Companies and Corporations, Employees, Consumers
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Making a fresh start after identity theft
The Wall Street JournalAs companies roll out a growing variety of tools to combat identity theft, some Americans are taking a more radical step: changing their Social Security number. Traditionally, trading in an old number for a new one is something attempted in only the most...Tags: Murder, Companies and Corporations, Consumers, Theft, Equifax Incorporated
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ChoicePoint had earlier data leak
Times Staff WritersScammers penetrated ChoicePoint Inc.'s vast online database of personal records five years ago in an operation similar to a more recent case that has triggered a national furor over privacy, court records show. Two Nigerian-born fraud artists were...Tags: Migration, Christine Burton, Computer Crime, Punishment, Lawyers
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Md. legislators to offer bill on ID theft
Sun StaffMaryland legislators are expected to introduce legislation to protect personal information from identity fraud in response to the security breach at ChoicePoint Inc. in which thieves acquired data on thousands of consumers. The legislation could be...Tags: Fraud, Office Equipment and Supplies, Lawyers, Companies and Corporations, Consumers
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