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	<title>Identity Theft in the News and Media</title>
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		<title>Bank vice-president and Mother, worked together to steal idenities</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/bank-vice-president-and-mother-worked-together-to-steal-idenities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mother and daughter &#8216;team&#8217; has pleaded guilty to charges relating to identity theft. The daughter worked as a bank vice president business development officer, at the Bank of the West and stole customer&#8217;s information. The mother then used her job as a real-estate agent, to find vacant homes where the fraudulent credit cards could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=121&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web site posts Iowans private information</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/web-site-posts-iowans-private-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in Iowa, or have ever owned any home in that state, then your information is now public! (or at least it has been). A land owners website has been posting home mortgage records and other documents from each county, since 2005! The article also states that records older than 5 yrs include personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=117&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banking customers&#8217; personal info sold on eBay</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/banking-customers-personal-info-sold-on-ebay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a story about a computer server, that was held customer archiving information from the Royal Bank of Scotland, was sold on eBay. The best part is, they did not remove the information off of the HARD DRIVE!

Story link from msnbc.com, posted on Aug 26, 2008 &#8211; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26412391/

A computer containing banking security details of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=115&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Students&#8217; Personal Data Posted Online</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/students-personal-data-posted-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of students was accidentally published on-line this summer by a test-preparation company. Their information was listed on-line for about six weeks, and contained data all the way back to 2006.

Story link from washingtonpost.com, posted on Aug. 21, 2008 &#8211; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082002147.html?hpid=sec-education

Student names, identification numbers assigned by the school system and dates of birth were inadvertently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=113&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former Police Chief charged with forging records for Identity Theft</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/former-police-chief-charged-with-forging-records-for-identity-theft/</link>
		<comments>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/former-police-chief-charged-with-forging-records-for-identity-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a former Police Chief who has been charged with Identity Theft. According to court records, he forged police records, so his girlfriend can use them to falsely claim she was a victim of Identity Theft

Story link from thetimes-tribune.com, posted on Aug 15, 2008 &#8211; http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/articles/2008/08/14/news/sc_times_trib.20080814.a.pg1.tt14kizer_s1.1875630_top3.txt

A former Wyoming County police chief and part-time officer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=106&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employees at Charter told data was stolen</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/employees-at-charter-told-data-was-stolen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cable provider company, Charter Communications, is telling 9,000 current and former employees that their personal information was involved in a security breach that occurred when a number of laptops were stolen last month.

Story link from Worcester, Mass. on-line newspaper, telegram.com, posted on Aug. 13, 2008 &#8211; http://www.telegram.com/article/20080813/NEWS/808130324/1002

Cable television operator Charter Communications Inc. is alerting employees, including some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=103&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some stores not telling customers about credit card breaches</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/some-stores-not-telling-customers-about-credit-card-breaches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dept. of Justice broke up the largest credit card hacking ring from retail stores all over the U.S. Over 40 million credit cards from nine retailers. However, only four-out-of-nine actually informed customers that their information had been compromised.
The other stores say they never told customers because they never confirmed data were stolen from them.

Story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=100&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska Air Group reports credit-card misuse</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/alaska-air-group-reports-credit-card-misuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you bought a plane ticket from Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air with your credit card, then your card might have been misused. About 1,500 people&#8217;s information has been reported that a call-center employee diverted some payments to a personal account.

Reported from Seattle Times newpaper online busniess headlines, posted on Aug 7, 2008 &#8211; http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008097068_bizbriefs07.html

About 1,500 people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=97&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Hospital Employees looking at patients records</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/more-hospital-employees-looking-at-patients-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, there was news of some medical workers looking at the medical records of celebrities. UCLA Medical Center warned it&#8217;s employees that they would be cracking down on this unauthorized access, however 127 UCLA workers have been implicated recently.

Story link from http://www.latimes.com/, posted on Aug 5, 2008 &#8211; http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-health5-2008aug05,0,3890869,full.story

&#8230;twice as many medical center [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=90&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Data on 90,000 people stolen, with Anheuser-Busch laptops</title>
		<link>http://idtheftnews.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/data-on-90000-people-stolen-with-anheuser-busch-laptops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anheuser-Busch has reported that laptops containing data on, &#8220;more than 90,000 people nationwide&#8220;, have been stolen. The laptops had information on current and former employees, along with over 3,000 people that were involved in assistance programs.
Who carries that information around on a laptop? I wonder if the laptops were stolen from a bar?

Original story from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idtheftnews.wordpress.com&blog=3534264&post=84&subd=idtheftnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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