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identity theft
AudioEdit: Consumerist.com Fears Identity Theft
By 10.10.06
What To Do When Your Identity Is Stolen
By 10.10.06
We noticed a strange item on our credit report yesterday, a credit card we had no idea about *.
Deja Vu: Geek Squad Gives Elderly Couple’s Hard Drive to Flea Market
By 10.9.06
For some reason, we never really pieced it together when we posted about Best Buy’s gremlin-like pilfering of a reader hard drive chock full of personal information, but we’ve previously reported on Best Buy’s practice of selling these reclaimed hard drives.
Maybe Worse Than WaMu Snookery
By 10.4.06
After showing “WaMu Snookers With Scary Letter” to consumer expert Edgar Dworsky, he told us something potentially more frightening than just the letter being a well-disguised solicitation.
UPDATE: Identity Thief Who Beat Up Fox Reporter On Camera Pleads Not Guilty
By 9.15.06
Generally speaking, your hopes of a successful plea of “not guilty, millud!” fade into the ether the second you beat the crap out of a news reporter on live television.
Fox 6 Reporter Beaten on Camera By Identity Thief
By 9.7.06
And this is why we file all our reports from the safety of our apartment.
EFF’s Talking Points For Contacting AOL on Data Leak
By 8.14.06
The EFF was none too happy about the AOL Search Records Data Leak. This is exactly the sort of thing that gets them to pull their lower lip over their heads in paranoid frustration.
AOL’s Search Leak and You
By 8.14.06
We’ve had a lot of fun with the AOL search results leak. In fact, some people have been confused by our glee in posting some of the more hilariously depraved records. Don’t we care about privacy?
VA Loses Another 38,000 Records
By 8.9.06
A drop in the bucket compared to the 26.5 million veteran’s records they lost before, but the VA has lost another 38,000 veterans records.
2 Young Scalawags Charged in Veteran Data Theft
By 8.8.06
Nineteen-year-old Jesus Alex Pineda 19, and Christian Brian Montano were charged Saturday in the left of a laptop containing 26.5 million veteran’s records.
How To Spot A PayPal Spoofer
By 8.2.06
As a person who conducts many thousands of dollars worth of transactions through PayPal every month, I’ve become rather adept at spotting a spoof. Not only is Thunderbird pretty excellent at picking up on scams, but a quick commonsense check when looking over an email from PayPal is all that it takes to thwart most spoofers. Does the ‘Click Here to Resolve’ actually link to PayPal? You can tell simply by hovering your mouse over the link and looking at the URL at the bottom. No? Ergo, not from PayPal.
