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Around 22,000 Social Security numbers of Delaware state government retirees have been inadvertently posted online by a government contractor.
Aon Consulting included the Social Security numbers, gender and birthdates of about 22,000 Delaware state government retirees in a request for proposals for insurance companies interested in providing vision coverage to employees and retirees. Retirees affected included teachers, state police and the judiciary.
That information was posted on the state’s procurement website, a mistake that went undetected for from August 16th to August 20th. The information was taken down once it was discovered.
Aon is a multinational corporation with offices in more than 120 countries.
Insurers need age and other information on the pool of people to be covered in order to prepare a bid, Aon Consulting spokesman Joe Micucci said Monday. He said that is normally done by using a random series of digits assigned to individuals to shield their identity, not their Social Security numbers.
However, “the information that should have been randomized was not,” Micucci said.
Letters are being sent to affected individuals who will be offered one year of free credit monitoring. The company also will provide the retirees information on the steps needed to place a fraud alert on their files.
Anyone could be an identity theft victim and if you might have not known it yet, millions of people fall on the hands of these thieves and stunning billions of dollars a year are lost due to this crime. When one’s identity get stolen, it takes months and sometimes even years before he realizes it. There are times when you see some charges unknown to you in your bills; thinking that it is something that just slipped your mind you just brush it off. If it happens every now and then, better have the hint that you’ve already lost your identity.
You might sometimes wonder how could someone know and use your personal information when you can’t remember giving out any information to any individual or any company. Identity theft criminals have a lot other ways of collecting other people’s personal information.
For identity thieves, your trash could be their treasure. If you’re thinking how then read on.
As far back as I can remember I would often be approached in parking lots by someone in a van who was trying to sell me home stereo speakers. The speakers were always from a retailer’s loading dock or from trucks that had extra unaccounted inventory. And today was my lucky day. The ruse was when you got the speakers loaded into your trunk, you were generally getting them in their new box. But the box just had pieces of wood. Anyone thinking they were getting a deal, was just getting firewood. This is classic bait and switch. Be more aware of these scams and protect yourself from them.
A twist on this scam happening all over is with laptops. The Business and Heritage reports “As a woman got out of her vehicle, she was approached by a man who had exited from his car. In his car were a woman in the front seat and a kid in the back.
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1) Transferring your domain: If you keep your same domain, you’ll have to move it over to Yahoo! Fortunately, Yahoo!’s phone-based customer service is pretty great, and they should be able to guide you through the process.
2) If you used one of Intuit’s templates to design your site, you probably won’t be able to move it over to Yahoo!
The Ohio State Highway Patrol has seen the number of identity theft cases more than double this year. Identity theft is a $10 million a year criminal business, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The increase in identity theft cases in the past year is alarming and continues to grow. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says it has investigated 248 cases so far this year, compared to 114 by this time in 2009. The agency says the cases involve fraudulent identification discovered by troopers during traffic stops or phony paperwork turned in to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles by people seeking driver licenses, state ID cards and vehicle registrations.
“It’s a huge problem,” says Sgt. Gregory Blake, “probably the fastest rising crime in the country.”
“There has been an increase throughout the state and there has been an increase here at the post,” said Sgt.
If you’ve used a credit card to make a payment on anything since the year 2005, you should be thankful for the Payment Card Industry’s Security Standard. It is a set of rules that help protect consumer information, specifically the information that is attached to your credit card. These rules govern the type of information security technology a merchant is required to have.
While these rules have undoubtedly made consumers safer, there is a huge problem with them, mainly that thousands of businesses do not comply with them. The PCI Security Standards Council recently conducted a survey of 560 U.S. based and international businesses, and its findings were quite discouraging.
The organization determined that: *Only 28 percent of small businesses comply with the standards. *Of those that do comply, 55 percent only secure credit card information, not other sensitive details, like Social Security numbers.