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Data Breaches

There is a large and growing risk of data breaches affecting businesses of all sizes, and the unfortunate truth of the …

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Identity Theft

Identity theft and data breaches have become two major problems for consumers in recent years as more information is digitized, and …

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How Debt Collectors Know Where You Work

It is “perhaps one of the most powerful and private databases of American’s personal information ever created, containing 190 million …

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Online Information

Consumers nationwide now have a wealth of information about themselves listed online in various places, some of which they know …

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Medical ID Theft

These days, consumers may pay a lot of attention to the ways in which they face potential problems related to …

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Mastercard Data

Many consumers use their credit and debit cards on a daily basis to make all sorts of purchases, and now …

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Between early 2008 and early 2010, one of the best-known names in credit reporting sold data on certain delinquent homeowners …

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With more public institutions and private companies collecting data about customers, it’s no surprise that Americans are trying to tighten …

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By Brian McGinley

In the spirit of the Olympic Games under way this summer in London, we’ve opted to award gold, …

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On April 26, Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) announced more bad news regarding an outage that occurred between April 17 and April 19 – customers’ information, including email addresses, names, home addresses, passwords, date of birth and perhaps even credit card information – may have been compromised due to an invasion into the network.

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