Identity Theft
| 10:00AM 5/10/2011
The massive hack of Sony's PlayStation Network in late April compromised the personal information of more than 100 million users, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft. The theft targeted members of the PlayStation Network, which connects users of the video game to each other, Sony and other...
| 9:00AM 5/06/2011
Two companies whose lax security procedures exposed more than 60,000 of their customers' employees to identity theft and fraud have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated federal law by failing to protect sensitive data.
Despite claims from Ceridian Corporation and Lookout...
| 5:30PM 4/05/2011
Five members of an international cyber-crime ring were convicted on federal charges for their part in a phishing scheme that fooled consumers into revealing personal information that was then used to siphon their bank accounts.
The five scammers found guilty by a federal jury were among 53...
| 12:00PM 4/05/2011
Customers who hand over credit cards to bartenders and wait staff deserve better protection than they got from a large restaurant chain, say state attorneys who recently won a six-figure settlement for a restaurant group's data-security failures.
The Briar Group, in Boston, agreed to pay...
| 4:30PM 3/24/2011
A high-tech fake identification mill in Utah has been dismantled by a special team of the Utah Attorney General's office.
Agents of the SECURE Strike Force seized equipment used to make a wide variety of identity cards from different states and countries. They confiscated computers, printers,...
| 12:01PM 3/12/2011
Making a list of federal scam alerts this week is a fraudulent dating site; a phishing email that claims your federal tax payment has been rejected; and a bogus virus-removal service that allows criminals to hijack your computer.
The alerts by the IC3, a partnership between the FBI and the...
| 11:00AM 3/10/2011
Facebook has quickly become scam central, and with as many as 600 million users it's easy to understand why criminals are attacking The Social Network in earnest. Scams come and go with the headlines, but lately to resurface is the Stalker app, which tries to tempt a click with a variation on an...