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Backchat - LexisNexis risks a tangle with ID thieves.(identity)(Brief Article)
Information colossus Reed Elsevier must be re-evaluating the cost of its $775m ([pounds sterling]412m) purchase of Seisint in July last year. The deal was meant to be a big booster for the LexisNexis risk management business, but last month it was helping generate unwanted headlines about security breaches and identity theft from LexisNexis databases, attracting the attention of budding "Talented Mr Ripleys" everywhere. As the Seisint unit is most notorious for supplying data to Matrix, a US Government project to collect data on citizens under the guise of combating terrorism, the irony of the situation was pretty rich. Hackers had got hold of a range of personal details assembled on up to 32,000 citizens - so the database itself, by its very existence, had become the biggest threat to the security of identity for these people. The risk ...
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...compromised by unsuspecting ID thieves. Ten Tips Consumers...lucrative times for ID thieves to strike unsuspecting...an opportune time for ID thieves to strike without any...security compliance and risk management solutions. The company...
- ID Thieves Face New Obstacle: Merchants ID Theft Advisory Board to Help Stop ID...
- Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire July 28, 2009 700+ words
...Board dedicated to stopping ID thieves by creating and delivering...purpose of data access, ID thieves are creative and relentless...evolving and sinister tactics by ID thieves require ongoing prevention...includes: Kent Ailes, VP Risk Management, AZ Federal Credit ...
- ID Thieves Face New Obstacle: Merchants ID Theft Advisory Board to Help Stop ID...
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...Board dedicated to stopping ID thieves by creating and delivering...purpose of data access, ID thieves are creative and relentless...evolving and sinister tactics by ID thieves require ongoing prevention...includes: Kent Ailes, VP Risk Management, AZ Federal Credit ...
- Free and Paid Wi-Fi Presents Treasure Trove for ID Thieves According to ID...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 12, 2007 700+ words
...has demonstrated how ID thieves can imitate Wi-Fi...the perfect bait for ID thieves. The purpose of the...another sweet spot for ID thieves to exploit and gain...security compliance and risk management solutions. The company...
- The Daily Oklahoman Trade Talk column: ID thieves try to steal your life and...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) April 18, 2007 700+ words
...he had the collective attention of the 22 people attending a seminar presented by Petermann, a certified identity theft risk management specialist from Stillwater. Just who are "they?" Well, as Petermann explained it, "they" are not only the thieves...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Mashberg, Tom April 10, 2005 700+ words
...Nearly 4,000 Bay Staters were hit by ID thieves last year, triple the number in 2001...consumers far more protections against ID thieves. All agree the problem has two major...Social Security numbers were laid bare for ID thieves, who have grown wily and brazen about...
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- Magazine article from: SC Magazine Carr, Jim March 1, 2006 700+ words
...It is no wonder then that fewer than two percent of all ID thieves end up prosecuted for their crime. Lazarus, for one, says...believes such services are nowhere close enough to stopping ID thieves. After all, such criminals raked in $53 billion in ID theft...
- Lack of Employer Oversight Often Aids ID Thieves.
- Newspaper article from: The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) March 25, 2004 700+ words
...flight school training. "If we don't have people keeping (ID thieves) in the forefront of your everyday routine, we're going...recent birthday. One of the best sources for sophisticated ID thieves is wireless computer networks. Plesco said he used equipment...
Source: HighBeam Research, Backchat - LexisNexis risks a tangle with ID thieves.(identity)(Brief...