April 5, 2012 by Terry.

ALERT #medicaid #utah 24,000 claims affected, SSN’s, addresses, physicians names, much more announced yesterday.  Are you affected?

Incident was reported to public some time yesterday, Wednesday April 5.  They feel the data breach may have happened last Friday, March 30.  The two links below the last paragraph will talk about how to watch over your financial data.  They ARE NOT fully informing you.  Information here

All the more reason people need to watch their back and have COMPLETE restoration when identity theft happens.  There are many areas of id theft.  Again, this article says watch your FINANCIAL data, nothing about your medical.  Maybe someone will get treatment in your name, a job, collect your tax refund, buy a house,…

Highly recommend adding IDentity Theft Shield and Safeguard for Minors - because they are the only ones who offer COMPLETE RESTORATION and have been around decades longer than anyone else you hear about.  Did you know there are a few hundred programs out there - but they are all focused on financial IDTheft.  http://talktoday.us

http://www.health.utah.gov/databreach/

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53862397-78/security-medicaid-utah-health.html.csp

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April 22, 2010 by Terry.

New Social Networking tool, from your Mobile Phone! Pros and Cons

Using your mobile phone and this new mobile app, taking a photo of someone, you may be able to discover more about them, before you walk over to introduce yourself [and maybe get wallop up-side the head or major what-for from them].

“A new social networking tool allows mobile phone users to identify people just by taking a photo.”
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March 10, 2010 by Terry.

Story by Wired:

• By Kim Zetter
• June 27, 2008  |
• 11:52 am  |
• Categories: Crime

LifeLock is in the news again.

The identity theft protection firm whose CEO lists his Social Security number in ads for the company is being sued by Namesafe, a competitor in the identity theft protection market, for allegedly stealing the company’s corporate identity and deceptive trade practices.
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March 10, 2010 by Terry.

Here is Press Release from Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about Lifelock:

For Release: 03/09/2010

LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and 35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims Were False Read the rest of this entry »

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March 10, 2010 by Terry.

I couldn’t say it any better than Wired.com, so here is their story:

Lifelock Dinged 12 Million

Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices (Wired.com) Read the rest of this entry »

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October 14, 2009 by Terry.

WARNING: 2010 Census begins phase 1 and so does the IDentity Thieves Read the rest of this entry »

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September 21, 2009 by Terry.

Like Americans, citizens of Germany have concerns for where they work, play, shop, with their private information.

from http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8117 Read the rest of this entry »

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July 6, 2009 by Terry.

News from New York State Insurance Department

07/06/2009

Acting Insurance Superintendent Kermitt Brooks today warned New York State licensed insurance agents and brokers to be aware of an identity theft scam involving telephone calls used to target insurance professionals in at least a half dozen states. Read the rest of this entry »

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May 28, 2009 by Terry.

“…LifeLock has been breaking California law for years by placing fraud alerts on its customer’s credit profiles.” from THREAT LEVEL at Wired.com

And charging you for it.  Folks, we can do that for FREE! Read the rest of this entry »

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May 25, 2009 by Terry.

Did you see this article on the New York Times back in January - or hear about it since then?

From that article the authors stated:

“Heartland, based in Princeton, N.J., works with about 175,000 small merchants and processes about 100 million transactions a month. It has created a Read the rest of this entry »

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