by admin | Jun 22, 2018 | Scam of the day
Although it should not take a rocket scientist to figure it out, cybersecurity is important. I first reported to you about one of NASA’s security failures in 2012. At that time a laptop computer containing unencrypted personal data of thousands of NASA employees...
by admin | Jul 30, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this month the Pennsylvania Revenue Department announced that it was notifying 865 taxpayers by mail that their unencrypted personal information was contained on one of four laptop computers stolen from a car used by Pennsylvania Revenue Department auditors...
by admin | Apr 6, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Following a joint investigation by the IRS and U.S. Army investigators, nine women from Alabama and one woman from Georgia have pleaded guilty to identity theft involving 7,000 soldiers, many of whom were deployed in Afghanistan. The personal information stolen was...
by admin | Mar 1, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, Nadia Figueroa, a bank teller at a JP Morgan Chase bank in White Plains, New York was convicted of being part of an identity theft ring that stole $850,000 from the accounts of innocent depositors in the bank. Figueroa obtained personal and...
by admin | Sep 25, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week, the General Accountability Office issued a new report dealing with income tax identity theft and what the IRS should be doing to reduce this problem which, last year alone cost taxpayers more than 5 billion dollars in fraudulent refunds paid to...
