Preventing identity theft if your data is exposed
If some of the world's largest corporations can't manage to keep your personal and financial data safe, is there anything you can do to protect yourself?
Identity theft usually the object of mail burglaries
When most burglaries happen, it doesn't take long for the victims to realize they have been violated. But when mail is stolen from a post office, a mail carrier or out of a mail box, people generally don't know they've been victimized.
Identity theft: How not to become a victim
Identity theft occurs when someone uses your information to commit fraud or other crimes.
Identity theft jumps in GJ; how to stop it
Reports of identity theft in Grand Junction run significantly higher than the rate for Colorado overall, which ranks 11th nationwide in identity-theft reporting. Grand Junction police logged 170 identity-theft reports in the past 12 months, a figure that’s up from 140 in the previous 12 months, police said. That’s a 21 percent increase over the previous year-long period.
Reporting Identity Theft Can Pay Dividends
TEMPE, Ariz. -- You can help protect yourself and the rest of the country from identity theft, an insidious crime that has silently crept up on unwitting consumers, government entities and privately owned businesses.
