While credit card fraud and identity theft have been hot topics over the past year due to a spate of massive data breaches, experts warn that medical identity theft should not be overlooked. Politico’s David Pittman reports that the Identity Theft Resource Center has identified 353 breaches so far this year across different industries, and [...]
Protecting your identity isn’t as cut and dry as it was before the digital age. Before the internet, identity thieves would find personal data by hunting through the garbage for sensitive documents, phishing for private information via phone rather than email or purchasing personal data from unscrupulous store employees.Now, with advances in technology, identity thieves [...]
This guest post comes from Michael Cahill, editor of the Vista Health Solutions Blog. He writes about the health care system, the health insurance industry and the Affordable Care Act. For many American families, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is going to make health insurance costs that much better. However, stories of scammers have made [...]
In the 2013 BYOD and Mobility Security Report, 70% of respondents cited security as the top criteria for success when implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs. The report, sponsored by Lumension Security, interviewed 1,650 information security professionals around the world, the majority of which represent organizations between 10 and 99 employees.Nathan Eddy of eWeek reported that security [...]
Adam Kennedy - [cc id='csid'] Restoration Supervisor; Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist Medical Identity Theft is a hot topic in the ID theft industry due to the severity of the consequences involved in this type of fraud. For that reason, I have been writing this series to inform you of how medical identity theft occurs [...]
Adam Kennedy - [cc id='csid'] Restoration Supervisor; Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist I recently began a series covering the severity of medical identity theft. In Part II of this series, I am going to cover some of the ways Identity Thieves are using medical information to commit fraud and put both your health and [...]
Adam Kennedy - [cc id='csid'] Restoration Supervisor; Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist By now you’ve heard horror stories involving individuals’ credit scores being ruined by financial identity theft, ads on the television for credit monitoring protection, and you may have experienced identity theft in your own home. While financial identity theft continues to receive [...]
