According to their corporate website, Radisson Hotels & Resorts have had a recent data breach of credit card numbers between November 2008 and May 2009. They are working closely with law enforcement and other authorities to analyze the situation, however,  the number of names and credit card numbers affected has not yet been released. They are reporting that no social security numbers were accessed in this breach. (more…)

According to their website, in March of this year, online retailer Batteries.com learned of a hacker that had access to their customer records. A customer reported to them that there was unauthorized activity regarding a credit account and the company launched an investigation. Records that were potentially accessible were names, addresses and credit card information. (more…)

Have you ever felt that the mobile phone service carrier you use might be the source of your personal data being exposed one day? That is exactly what happened to millions of German customers of T-Mobile, some of whom were very prominent.
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Do you have benefits at work ? We all know how important it is to provide personal information to benefit providers so that they can administer our plan. Something we might not all have considered is: how well is our benefit plan administrator protected from being hacked or a victim of theft?
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In researching the types of identity theft and occurrences of identity theft, we find more and more that a lot of the larger companies are either targeted or become victims of the professional ID Theft criminal. They either lose track of a laptop, or have a desktop computer hacked. Every once in a while, it is due to an employee who no longer keeps information confidential. Since we all have to give out personal information in order to conduct business with certain companies, wouldn’t it be a good idea to have a way of detecting whether or not that information is being compromised sooner than later?
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