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Identity Theft News
Chicago Tribune , November 28, 2015
Man charged with stealing Deerfield resident's identity in credit card scheme
By Steve Sadin
Matthew T. Maciejewski, 35, of Chicago, was arrested by Deerfield police Nov. 13 and charged with identity theft and fraudulent use of a credit card. He was picked up in Harwood Heights on a warrant issued six months earlier by a Lake County Criminal Court judge, according to Deerfield police reports. ...read full article
November 6, 2015
2 arrested in Oakhurst during identity theft investigation
By Troy Pope
Two Oakhurst residents were arrested Tuesday during an investigation into a string of burglaries, identity theft and fraud, the Madera County Sheriff's Office said. ...read full article
November 5, 2015
Child Identity Theft: Your Child Could Be Next
By Isabella Moller
It's becoming more common for hackers to take this personal information and use it as their own. And now they've schemed something else, taking your child's identity. ...read full article
November 5, 2015
Cab driver accused of identity theft enters guilty plea
By Jason Knowles
A cab driver accused of stealing passenger debit and credit cards has entered a guilty plea. The ABC7 I-Team exposed the driver and the elaborate scheme a year ago. That cab driver in question faced several counts of felony identity theft. ...read full article
October 27, 2015
Thomson Reuters Releases Guide to Helping Tax Identity Theft Victims
By Michael Cohn
Thomson Reuters has published a guide for tax professionals whose clients have been victimized by tax-related identity theft. PPC's Guide to Tax-Related Identity Theft covers various aspects of identity theft, from verification to monitoring and alerting the appropriate agencies and authorities, to help tax practitioners act on behalf of clients. ...read full article
October 22, 2015
Waynesboro Man Charged with Identity Theft from Family Member
By NBC29 News
Waynesboro Police Department News Release: The Waynesboro Police Department has charged a Waynesboro man with several felonies after an unauthorized summer spending spree with a relative's credit card. ...read full article
October 22, 2015
IRS will share tax-filing info to fight identity theft
By Kay Bell
One security move is ensuring that federal and state tax agencies, along with the tax industry that helps millions of individuals file their returns each year, have all the information they need to fight identity thieves. ...read full article
September 29, 2015
GOP lawmaker backs bill to combat identity theft
By Cory Bennett
A House Republican wants to reduce identity theft by keeping Social Security numbers off many federal tax forms. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) has introduced the Taxpayer Identity Protection Act, which would let companies use an alternative to the Social Security number on the W-2 tax form, issued to every employee earning at least $600 a year. ...read full article
September 29, 2015
How to keep scammers from pulling an ID theft double whammy
By Adam Levin
When it comes to data security and the real-life impact of identity theft, public awareness is at an all-time high. But there is still great confusion and ignorance about what it is, how it happens, and what can be done to avoid the pitfalls of life after a data breach or personal compromise. ...read full article
September 29, 2015
Identity theft hit 7% of U.S. population last year
By Martyn Williams
Almost 18 million people were victims of identity theft in the United States last year, with the majority of crimes targeting credit cards and bank accounts, the Department of Justice said Sunday. ...read full article
September 7, 2015
Ohio AG: Complaints of Identity Theft Top 3,500
By Sean Rowe
The state's attorney general says his office got more than 3,500 complaints of identity theft over the first three years of a special unit designed to thwart it. ...read full article
September 7, 2015
Logan care giver guilty of aggravated identity theft
By Staff Report
A Logan County home care giver pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this week to identity theft and agreed to serve a 24 month prison sentence and agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $56,543.93 announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. Crystal Hullett, age 38, of Russellville, pleaded guilty to five counts of aggravated identity theft before U.S. District Judge Greg Stivers on Sept. 2, 2015. ...read full article
September 7, 2015
Congressman is tax ID theft victim
By Kay Bell
Identity theft has become an epidemic, claiming more than 10 million victims in the past 5 years, according to the Federal Trade Commission. You can add 1 more particularly ironic victim to the 2015 tax ID theft list: Rep. Jason Chaffetz ...read full article
August 26, 2015
Experts warn children could be vulnerable for ID theft
By Deanna Dewberry
As you prepare to send your kids back to school, experts warn you need to think about more than supplies, clothes and bus schedules. You also need to think about identity theft. ...read full article
August 10, 2015
Identity theft complaints up sharply, agencies say
By Patricia Sabatini
With a record number of data breaches reverberating across the nation last year, identity theft zoomed to the top as the fastest-growing complaint reported by state and local consumer protection agencies in 2014, according to a just-released survey by the Consumer Federation of America. ...read full article
August 7, 2015
Smartwatches Present Opportunities for Identity Theft
By Dondi Tiples
Researchers from the University of New Haven in Connecticut have conducted a study to show how easy it would be for hackers to steal personal information from smartwatches. ...read full article
August 5, 2015
By nearly any measure, sunny South Florida is tops in fraud
By Curt Anderson
Need a phony ID? A fraudulent tax refund? Insurance money from a sham car crash? Florida may have just what you’re looking for. Since the first settlers hacked their way into the mangrove tangles and drained much of the swampland, sunny South Florida has been virtually synonymous with shady deals and scams. ...read full article
August 5, 2015
Identity theft packs an emotional toll
By Susan Ladika
Fear, anger, sleep disturbances, problems concentrating. They're all common reactions for victims of violent crime. But they're also likely to strike if you've been the victim of identity theft. With identity theft, "We often measure the toll strictly in dollars and cents," says Eva Velasquez, CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). "I think we need to stop minimizing the emotional impact it has." ...read full article
July 29, 2015
Man convicted of identity theft, fake organizations for veterans
By Austin Baird
For the better part of three years, Alan Michael Bartlett of Owosso, Mich., was the leader of U.S. Disabled Veterans, LLC and U.S. Handicapped-Disadvantaged Services, LLC. ...read full article
July 27, 2015
Facial recognition software helps state fight ID fraud
By Paul Giblin
The Arizona Department of Transportation has increased the number of potential fraudulent ID cases it has detected by about 860 percent, on average, since implementing facial-recognition technology earlier this year. ...read full article
July 10, 2015
San Antonio women indicted for wire fraud, identity theft
By Dawns Brooks
A San Antonio woman was indicted Wednesday by a grand jury in connection with wire fraud and identity theft. ...read full article
July 6, 2015
IRS Combats Identity Theft, Protects Taxpayers in Collaborative Effort
By St. George News
The IRS joined Thursday with representatives of tax preparation and software firms, payroll and tax financial product processors and state tax administrators to announce a sweeping collaborative effort to combat identity theft refund fraud and protect the nation’s taxpayers. ...read full article
July 6, 2015
Feds take action against sellers of non-existent credit or identity theft monitoring service
By Jennifer Abel
Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, announced an action against two “credit card add-on product vendors” — sellers of services such as identity theft protection or credit monitoring — for billing customers for add-on services they never actually received. ...read full article
July 6, 2015
A new early warning of identity theft is proposed
By Annamaria Androits
Sen. Schumer on Monday sent a letter to Equifax EFX -0.44%, Experian and TransUnion, the country’s three largest credit-reporting firms, asking them to implement a system that will notify consumers when someone is trying to get a loan or other type of credit in their name. If the consumers didn’t request the credit, they would have an early indication that their information had been compromised. Consumers should have the option of signing up for these alerts, the senator says. ...read full article
July 2, 2015
Sen. Casey Pushes Identity Theft Bill
By Torsten Ove
Highlighting data showing that Pennsylvania is second in the nation for incidents of identity theft, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., on Thursday pushed for passage of a bill that he said would help prevent ID theft and improve the response of the IRS to identity theft-related tax fraud. ...read full article
May 6, 2015
The burgeoning business of identity protection
By Ericka Chickowski
Services that monitor credit reports and help protect consumers from fraud are proliferating. But are the fees they charge worth it, and can they really guard against identity theft? ...read full article
May 6, 2015
9 States With The Most Identity Theft Complaints
By Thomas C. Frohlich & Mark Lieberman
In 2014, data theft reached record levels. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 783 data breaches last year, a substantial increase from both the previous year and the previous 2010 peak ...read full article
May 6, 2015
IRS sets up dedicated cybercrime unit to combat identity theft
By Charlie Osborne
The US Internet Revenue Service has launched a new unit dedicated to tackling the rising rate of identity theft through hacking. ...read full article
April 27, 2015
At this pace, Medicare won't stop identity theft
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Medicare officials are going to protect 50 million elderly and disabled enrollees from identity theft. Someday. Unfortunately, middle-aged identity thieves will likely hit Medicare age before the change ...read full article
April 27, 2015
Local Woman Upset With IRS Over Identity Theft Case
By Sarah Schwabe
Betty Williams says it's been more than a year since it happened, and the IRS still hasn't cleared everything up. ...read full article
April 22, 2015
“I’m livid:” Victim of identity theft gets notice from IRS, her tax refund may be going to someone else
By Bret Lemoine
A truly “taxing” experience for a Franklin woman who is the victim of identity theft. She didn’t know it until she got a letter in the mail from the IRS. Her tax refund could be going to someone else, and she’s not the only victim dealing with a mess like this. ...read full article
April 20, 2015
Child identity theft on the rise
By Janice O'Shea
Identity theft is on the rise, but it might not be what you expect. ...read full article
April 18, 2015
Income tax identity theft season isn't over yet
By Steve Weisman
he April 15th deadline for the filing of federal income taxes has come and gone, but if you have become a victim of income tax identity theft this tax season, your problems have only just begun ...read full article
April 17, 2015
Identity Theft Poses Extra Troubles for Children
By Ron Lieber
she may have fallen victim to thieves who gained access to Social Security numbers and other personal data from the health insurance giant Anthem ...read full article
April 13, 2015
Almost 800,000 victims of identity theft over past year
By John Collett
More than 772,000 people, or 5 per cent of the adult population of Australia, have been the victims of identity theft over the past 12 months. ...read full article
April 13, 2015
Why Identity Theft Victims Wait 9 Months for Their Tax Refund
By Christine DiGangi
Hundreds of thousands of taxpayers experience significantly delayed refunds every year because of tax-related identity theft. That delay lasted an average of 278 days ...read full article
April 9, 2015
Florida identity theft capital of US
Federal Trade Commission figures quoted by the Justice Department said Florida had the highest rate of identity theft of anywhere in the US in 2013 and 2014, with 186.3 complaints per 100,000 residents. ...read full article
April 6, 2015
Identity theft a problem as tax deadline nears
By Caleb Calhoun
there is one problem that has continued to grow over the years — identity theft ...read full article
April 5, 2015
How to prevent identity fraud at tax time
By Jeff Reeves
But even more frustrating is paying your taxes to what you think is the IRS, only to discover later that you've been a victim of fraud. ...read full article
April 5, 2015
Better Business Bureau: Identity theft a persistent threat
More than 300,000 identity theft complaints in 2014
By The Better Business Bureau
This is not a boy-who-cried-wolf situation. ID thieves are not imaginary predators. They are attacking their victims continuously and the need is for heightened diligence on the part of the public. ...read full article
March 30, 2015
Report: Identity theft and fraud complaints soared in Pennsylvania in 2014
By Michael Goldberg
The number of identity theft and fraud complaints reported by Americans continues to soar, and Pennsylvania ranks in the top third of U.S. states when it comes to such catalogued criminal activity ...read full article
March 28, 2015
New kind of identity theft you haven't heard of
By Selena Maranjian
There's not just a single kind of identity theft, though. There's one kind in particular that has been happening more often lately. You probably don't know about it and you definitely should. It's medical identity theft. ...read full article
March 26, 2015
Identity Theft Victim Spends 32 Days in Jail
By Christine DiGangi
A Georgia man says he spent 32 days in a Missouri jail for crimes a former roommate committed. It was a case of identity theft ...read full article
March 23, 2015
Alleged hacker brought to N.J. on charges of large-scale identity theft
By Paul Milo
A Romanian man has been extradited to the United States where he will face charges that he oversaw a computer hacking scheme in which he obtained at least several thousand user names, passwords and credit and debit card numbers, the office of U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said in a statement. ...read full article
March 23, 2015
Lubbock man reports identity theft after filing taxes online
By Gloria DeLeon
Karl Craig filed his taxes this year using an online system as he always has, but this year something changed. ...read full article
March 19, 2015
Your Credit Report And Identity Theft: What You May Not Know
By Marc Weber Tobias
Identity theft is a threat to anyone that has interaction with virtually any segment of the financial infrastructure, because the system validates who you are (and ultimately extends credit) based upon certain identifying information. ...read full article
March 17, 2015
Someone Filed a False Tax Return in Your Name. What Now?
By Kira Brecht
It's not just credit and debit cards that cyber hackers are after these days. Criminals are also using stolen personal information to file fraudulent tax returns and receive tax refunds ...read full article
March 16, 2015
Anthem hack spurs spike in ID theft insurance
By Alan Goforth
The Target data security breach during the 2013 holiday season was a tremor that shook businesses and consumers into heightened awareness of cyber theft. The more recent Anthem breach has been a major aftershock. ...read full article
March 15, 2015
What's most dangerous kind of identity theft?
By Patricia Oliver
Like the thieves behind the crime, identity theft can take on many disguises depending on the information stolen ...read full article
March 1, 2015
What We Could Have Done With the $5.8 Billion the Government Lost to Tax ID Theft
By Adam Levin
Imagine you were President, or Speaker of the House, and one day you woke up and discovered that you had an extra $5.8 billion dollars to spend. What would you do with the cash? ...read full article
March 1, 2015
Federal Trade Commission: Identity theft once again the top consumer complaint
By CNN Wire Service
There’s no doubt it’s a scary situation when it happens. If a criminal gets his hands on some personal information, it can wreak havoc on your life. ...read full article
February 23, 2015
Senior Corner: Be Aware of Tax Identity Theft
By Amber Nightingale
Every two seconds, someone’s identity is stolen. And with tax season upon us, con artists are stealing Social Security numbers to file for fraudulent tax refunds. ...read full article
February 23, 2015
Stolen Identity: 2.3 Million Americans Suffer Medical ID Theft
By Julianne Pepitone
Medical identity theft is one of the most costly, confusing and potentially dangerous types of fraud -- and a new study shows it's on a sharp rise. ...read full article
January 26, 2015
Be on the Lookout for Identity Theft This Tax Season
Tax identity theft and refund fraud are a serious concern. Learn more about the problem, ways to avoid it, and what to do if you are victimized. ...read full article
January 22, 2015
Former Owner of Multiple Tax Franchise Stores Jailed for ID Theft
The former owner of multiple tax franchise stores has been sentenced to two years in prison for identity theft. She was indicted in June on 10 counts of aggravated identity theft and 10 counts of using other people’s Social Security numbers, which she stole from clients. ...read full article
January 11, 2015
Study Suggests New Yorkers Are in Denial of Identity Theft Risk
The failure to use complex passwords to protect electronic devices, or even omission of passwords altogether, has left New Yorkers at risk for identity theft victimization, according to a recent study. Donald Rebovich, executive director of the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection at Utica College, addressed this troubling finding in a recent article. ...read full article
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