Credit Karma is best known for being the only reason anyone is ever willing to peek at their credit score, but the company has other things it wants you to be less stressed out about too. After introducing a free identity monitoring tool for its users late last year, Credit Karma is widening the scope […]
View More Credit Karma expands its identity theft monitoring tool to include dark web dataCategory: identity theft
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Identity theft is one of the most pervasive crimes of the 21st century – affecting millions of Americans each year.
In fact, in 2016 fraudsters were able to make off with $16 billion from more than 15 million victims in the US alone, according to a study by New Javelin Strategy and Research.
Most of us have heard of identity thieves skimming debit card readers and using pin-capturing devices at ATMs to gain access to bank accounts, but the extent to their craftiness goes far beyond that. Read more…
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Equifax somehow still manages to surprise us.
The credit-reporting agency whose allegedly shoddy security practices allowed hackers to steal the personal information of potentially 143 million Americans is back in the news, and it’s not for anything good. In fact, it’s bad — like an additional 2.4 million Americans bad.
On the off chance that you had somehow managed to put the company’s mid-2017 case of likely catastrophic negligence behind you, the get-rich-or-fuck-you-over-trying folks are back to remind everyone just how much we hate them with the bombshell that even more people were hit by hack than originally reported. Read more…
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View More Equifax just reminded us that it’s still the goddamn worstForever 21 tells customers that some credit card numbers may have been stolen
This week, the clothing retailer Forever 21 disclosed to customers that it was hacked earlier in 2017. While the company has not yet offered many details about the intrusion, we know that it is looking into a portion of credit card transactions between March 2017 and October 2017 that were conducted over machines that appear to have been insecure. “Because of the encryption and… Read More