CRIME: Lost Medicare apps stir ID theft fears (Identity Theft)

CRIME: Lost Medicare apps stir ID theft fears
Grand Forks Herald - BISMARCK - A batch of Medicare prescription drug benefit applications was stolen in a car burglary, rich with information that can be used to defraud the people who filled them out, Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman said. Dick Brown, spokesman for
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Fighting Back Against ID Theft
WTVR-TV - Banks set up safeguards to help protect their customers against crimes like identity theft and bank fraud, but what happens when one person's information gets in the wrong hands? The Attorney General says there are measures you can take to avoid
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Veterans' ID theft bigger than first thought
KVBC - It's not just Social Security numbers and birthdates that are at risk. Phone numbers and addresses of millions of veterans could be available to potential identity thieves. The Associated Press has learned information stolen from the Maryland home of
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Forecast: ID Theft by Insiders to Grow Dramatically in '06
TechNewsWorld - According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, located in San Diego, more than 51 million personal identifying numbers have been compromised by criminals since February. One that made headlines was from Atlanta-area data broker ChoicePoint, which
Source: www.technewsworld.com