PC World has recently reported that over 10,000 Hotmail account usernames and passwords were posted online by hackers who wanted to show that they could gain access to sensitive information. The accounts posted included those that started with ‘A’ and ‘B’ in alphabetical order. The total number of accounts hacked could be upwords of 100,000 that were not posted, but are compromised. (more…)

It is now October and the year has almost come to an end. How fast this year has gone by and unfortunately, many thousands have been involved in countless identity theft scams and data breaches, including the following reported last week…
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Last week, a news stories published by CompterWorld was posted that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began notifying over 100,000 women about the possible exposure of their social security numbers and other personal information. A computer hacker has breached the university computer system and it has been found that these records were accessed. It is not believed at this time that the data has been downloaded or modified. (more…)

There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who have been exposed to a data breach in recent months. Data breach protection is on the minds of many. Even though you may protect your own data, you might be concerned with protecting yourself in the event that your data was involved in a company data breach.

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A news radio station in Chicago, IL has reported that the personal information of over 60,000 people has been stolen. A laptop computer that contains this information was stolen from an employee of a company that handles billing for the Chicago Fire Department ambulance transportation service. The revenue department in Chicago has noted that anyone who has been transported via one of the city’s fire department ambulances, should be concerned about this theft.
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What better time to be online shopping for the right Lifelock promo code? Millions will have to be notified of the potential of exposure of their computer/personal information to an unauthorized party.  One of our data breach sources and the New Hampshire Department of Justice have reported that back on December 2, (more…)

We bring the following story to you in the hope that you will realize that while no one is safe from being touched by the crime of identity theft, many can protect themselves with a good identity theft protection plan, like LifeLock.

Hurricane Katrina spread through the news like wildfire as several thousands were displaced from their homes and had to move on. We all remember the pictures of the devastating storm in the news and may we say that for those who went through the terrible affects this storm had (which we can not even begin to imagine) we are sorry to see such happen to your area. This did unmentionable damage and ruined the lives of too many to account for. Has everything calmed after the storm? Not hardly. (more…)

Well, it is all over the news. A pharmacy benefits management company, Express Scripts, has reported that they received an extortion letter that is threatening to expose patient records that number into the millions. The company is being required to pay a large sum of money to prevent this data breach from taking place. The letter is a great concern due to the fact that it did contain names, social security number, dates of birth and prescription information on several of their patients’ records. Express Scripts received this letter last month and has now seen fit to make the matter known to the public.
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