identity fraud in news
Tell customers about data breaches, companies urged
News Fielder added consumers should also have the power to freeze their own credit ratings when needed, to help prevent identity fraud. UK companies should warn customers if their personal data has been put at risk, according to the National Consumer... [16 Jul 2007]
Orange pulled up by privacy watchdog
News The finding relates to customer details being left open to potential fraud or retained without customer consent. F is for Federated identity Orange and Littlewoods have been found to be in breach of the data protection act (DPA) by the Information... [22 Jun 2007]
National ID Scheme an "essential defence"
News Byrne said: "Unless we invest in identity systems we leave our borders and our economy open to abuse, we leave individuals defenceless against fraud and we risk leaving the benefits safety nets we've worked so hard for vulnerable to attack. [19 Jun 2007]
ID cards to cost more than £5.5bn
News The government estimates the use of false identity information currently costs the UK more than £1.7bn per year and the ID scheme will make it much more difficult for such fraud to occur. But Booth said the government's £1.7bn cost estimate for... [10 May 2007]
Barclays doles out 500,000 chip and PIN devices
News Barclays is the first organisation in the UK to roll out chip and PIN terminals to its customers and already offers an SMS text-alert payment confirmation system and anti-keystroke logging technology to combat potential fraud. [18 Apr 2007]
ID fraud reports rocket
News The internet is helping criminal gangs to coordinate their activities and steal personal details to perpetrate identity fraud. Financial information firm Experian was contacted by 2,124 new victims of ID fraud in the second half of 2006, a rise of... [12 Apr 2007]
Snatched laptop puts 40,000 at risk of ID fraud
News About 40,000 US Chicago Public Schools (CPS) employees are at risk of identity fraud after two laptops containing their personal information were stolen late last week. The University of California at San Francisco recently said a possible computer... [10 Apr 2007]
Fresh data leak scare at US university
News A possible computer security breach at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) may have put 46,000 campus and medical centre faculty, staff and students at risk of identity fraud. UCSF has alerted the affected people, urging them to... [05 Apr 2007]
Three charged over online stock scam
News Marimuthu and Chockalingam Ramanathan were charged with one count of conspiracy, eight counts of computer fraud, six counts of wire fraud, two counts of securities fraud and six counts of aggravated identity theft. [14 Mar 2007]
ID fraud soaring across the pond
News Fraud related to identity theft has risen by more than 50 per cent across the pond since 2003, according to analyst Gartner. Around 15 million US consumers are estimated to have been victims of this kind of fraud from mid-2005 to mid-2006. [07 Mar 2007]
Nothing to fear over ID cards privacy, says passport chief
News Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke also came out fighting for ID cards in a Channel 4 documentary - Fighting Identity Fraud - at the weekend, claiming they will improve the quality of people's lives and enhance security. [06 Mar 2007]
Biometric banks and borders backed by consumers
News The majority of consumers in the UK (87 per cent) and the US (63 per cent) said financial and government institutions are not doing enough to stop the rise in identity fraud and to protect personal information, according to a survey from IT vendor... [06 Feb 2007]
NHS signs up SAS in fight against fraud
News The NHS' fraud-busting unit has embarked on one of its biggest ever IT projects as part of its continued crackdown on the millions of pounds lost through fraud in the health service each year. The NHS Counter Fraud Service (CFS) will use software... [24 Jan 2007]
ID theft targeted by web search service
News It fills an important gap consumers have in the tools available to them for fighting identity-theft related fraud," she said. James Van Dyke, president of Javelin Strategy & Research, which studies fraud, said: "There is a significant amount of... [24 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in the public sector
News According to one fraud expert, the cards would be cloned within six months of their launch. All of this has led some people to conclude they would be better off renewing their passports early, which they calculated would be enough to keep them... [21 Dec 2006]
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