News tagged with fraud alert

Lost data may have exposed 800,000 people in Calif

(AP) -- A disaster preparedness exercise to ensure California's child support system could be run remotely went smoothly, except for one casualty: the names, Social Security numbers and other private records of about 800,000 ...

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created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Library service software glitch creates student data breach at 6 Fla. colleges

Confidential information for about 126,000 students and employees at six community colleges in Florida were publicly available on the Internet for five days, a state library service center announced Tuesday.

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created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ID-theft ruling: Set your own fraud alerts

(AP) -- Companies that sell "identity-theft protection" present an alluring but questionable proposition.

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created May 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0