Articles Tagged with ''identity theft''

$200 million-worth in automobiles, electronics and gold was purchased on some 25,000 fraudulent credit cards in an 18-person crime ring, prosecutors allege.

The October 3, 2012, data breach might affect upward of 1.1 million people who were either Nationwide customers or sought a quote from the Ohio-based company.

There are 10,000 active identity theft crime rings across the U.S., especially in the Southeast.

Investigators from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) were able to obtain drivers licenses and state IDs using counterfeit materials in three different states.

Twelve-million pieces of personal information online are in the hands of fraudsters from the first quarter of 2012 alone.

A hospital employee in Matteson, Ill., has been charged with stealing patients' credit card information to pay her bills.

A Newark airport security supervisor has been accused of using the identity of a slain New York man for 20 years.

Financial accounts and more than 350,000 Social Security numbers belonging to current and former staff members and students at UNC-Charlotte were exposed to the Internet.

 

The Social Security numbers of 2.5 million deceased Americans are used each year.

Utah state officials have revised the number of victims three times since the breach was discovered last week Monday.