The State Department warned Friday that nearly 400 passport applicants may have had their personal information exposed through a security breach, making them open to identity theft. The State Department has notified 383 people so far, most of in the Washington, D.C. area that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been […]

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In the latest news from Portland we find an unintended consequence of the recent crackdowns on workers found using traditional counterfeit documentation. Illegal immigrants are now turning to Identity Theft.
There are apparently organized crime “vendors” involved in this growing business of providing workers with stolen identities, often those of children, senior citizens or people who […]

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After the latest newsworthy security breach of over 64,000 Ohio State Employees Identity Information, Ohio has chosen to go with Debix, a leading identity theft prevention service, in order to provide credit and proactive fraud alert based monitoring for all of their employees. We think this is an astute move, considering that traditional credit monitoring […]

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