by admin | Aug 29, 2018 | Scam of the day
Child identity theft has grown as a problem in recent years. According to Javelin Strategy and Research, a million American children became victims of identity theft last year at a cost of 2.6 billion dollars in total losses to the families. Children have become a...
by admin | Aug 5, 2018 | Scam of the day
The hospital at Boys Town, Nebraska recently announced that it had suffered a data breach in May although the data breach was not disclosed until now. Boys Town Nebraska is the national headquarters of Boys Town, which started as an orphanage for boys and became the...
by admin | Mar 19, 2018 | Scam of the day
In recent years, children have been a prime target of identity thieves who, if they are able to get identifying information on a child such as the child’s Social Security number, can open a credit report on behalf of the child and obtain credit in the...
by admin | Jan 2, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
North Carolina became the latest state to enact a law providing for credit freezes for children to protect against child identity theft. Unfortunately, less than half of the states provide this much needed protection of minors from identity theft. This is important...
by admin | Sep 28, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Last week, Florida became the latest state to enact a law to help combat identity theft of children’s identities. The new law has the clever acronym of KIDS, which stands for the Keeping ID Safe act. Under this law, parents of minors are able to open a file...
