Thieves raid accounts of Dollar Tree customers
Using stolen personal identification and account numbers, thieves have withdrawn hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of consumers who used debit cards at Dollar Tree stores in California and southern Oregon, police departments in the tw...
UK bank details sold in Nigeria
Bank account details belonging to thousands of Britons are being sold in West Africa for less than ?20 each, the BBC"s Real Story programme has found. It discovered that fraudsters in Nigeria were able to find internet banking data stored on recycled PCs...
Your Life as an Open Book
Privacy advocates and search industry watchers have long warned that the vast and valuable stores of data collected by search engine companies could be vulnerable to thieves, rogue employees, mishaps or even government subpoenas. Four major search compani...
Hard disks still scrapped with data intact
Companies are still selling on old hard drives without taking the slightest precaution to wipe business-sensitive data first, a study has found. The BT-funded research, carried out by the University of Glamorgan in Wales, analyzed 317 hard drives purchas...
Google Sees Privacy Threats From Government Intrusions
Web search leader Google Inc., which stores vast amounts of data on the Web surfing habits of its users, sees government intrusions rather than accidental public disclosures of data as the greatest threat to online privacy, its chief executive said Wednesd...
Fallout From AOL"s Data Leak Just Beginning
AOL"s release of subscribers" search data is an unprecedented event that could spark a change in Internet privacy rules or it could spark a series of lawsuits, according to experts. Parry Aftab, executive director of wiredsafety.org, which claims to be t...
Vassar patients worried about ID theft overwhelm hot line
People concerned their personal information may have been accessed following the theft of a laptop from Vassar Brothers Medical Center inundated a call center fielding inquiries, hospital officials said. "They were overwhelmed with the number of calls tod...