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1   Link   Children and Identy Theft
Identity theft doesn't just happen to adults. Over a half million children every year have their social security number stolen.
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2   Link   Social Security identity theft
Your social security number may not be unique to you
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3   Link   Data Protection Laws
Tougher Data Protection Laws Could Force Businesses To Rethink Compliance
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4   Link   Identity theft risk in the corp world
Firms ignore id theft risk
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5   Link   Fake tax returns : New twist on ID theft


Dead wife's Social Security number was stolen and used by crooks who submitted a fake 2010 electronic tax return.

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6   Link   7.5 million Facebook users are under 13: study
Some 7.5 million of the 20 million minors who used Facebook in the past year were younger than 13, and a million of them were bullied, harassed or threatened on the site, a study released Tuesday said.

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7   Link   Identity Theft right at the post office
Two California men are facing multiple charges of identity theft and forgery of prescriptions after police arrested them at the main U.S. Post Office branch on Gardiner Lane.

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8   Link   Employee steals identities from several people
A former Columbus SunTrust Bank employee faces accusations by a federal grand jury that she stole more than $170,000 from several people by taking money from their accounts or stealing their identities and making loans in their names.

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9   Link   Foster Children More Susceptible to Identity Theft and Damaged Credit
Foster children are often shuffled from house to house and go through many foster parents, and sometimes the foster care personnel or foster parents, the people who are supposed to protect and raise these children, are using their personal information to obtain credit. These children turn 18, and they are kicked out into the world with destroyed credit, very little savings, and no support system in place to help them. They have trouble getting housing, a car, or even a job, and if they get a job, they usually don’t know much about money management.

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10   Link   Scammers target Michaels shoppers
Michaels Stores Inc. is the latest corporation hit by an identity theft scheme, which has potentially compromised customer debit card information across its 964 U.S. stores, including those in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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11   Link   Sony suffers second data breach with theft of 25m more user details
Hacker attack on security of Sony Online Entertainment network preceded PlayStation Network breach but was only discovered on Monday
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12   Link   Citigroup. loss of 360,000 customers information
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13   Link   $12 million dollar lawsuit against LifeLock
Don't be fooled by the massive advertising campaign. LifeLock does not help you in all 6 areas of identity theft.
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14   Link   ONLINE EXPOSURE TO IDENITY THEFT
More than 5 million online U.S. households experienced some type of abuse on Facebook in the past year, including virus infections, identity theft, and for a million children, bullying, a Consumer Reports survey shows.
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15   Link   Senior citizens vulnerable to identity theft
Experts say the number of identity-theft cases involving seniors is a continuing problem nationally.

According to numbers published by the Federal Trade Commission in March, reports of identity theft targeting people 50 and older represented about 28 percent of the total 236,765 cases in 2010.


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16   Link   Child Identity Theft on the RISE


Child ID theft, among the more tragic and vexing 21st Century crimes, is much more common than previously thought, suggests a report being published Friday by a Carnegie Mellon University fellow.

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17   Link   New Jersey DMV workers accused of selling identities for $200 a pop




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18   Link   17 years of Being a Victim of Identity Theft
The real Larry Smith is 67, lives in Florida and has experienced 17 years of trouble because of Kidd's adventures.

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19   Link   2 tax preparers are charged in identity theft and tax fraud case

Two metro Detroit tax preparers were arrested Friday after authorities say they stole the identities of dead people from around the country to fill out more than 300 phony tax returns and bilk the government out of $800,000 in bogus refunds.
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20   Link   Grave Mistakes: Thousands of Names, SSN's, Dates of Birth, Released in Error
A leak since 1980, which is estimated to release approximately 14,000 Social Security numbers per year, comes right from the Social Security Administration itself.
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