Comments on: HP Employees Suffer Data Exposure

By: amurgrades

amurgrades — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:16:24 +0000

Clearly. Thanks!
:))

By: sami

sami — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:26:25 +0000

Identity Theft is growing crime but Life Lock take security, and takes responsibility to protect us from wrong hands. It also introduce new services that offer new client and also for those they already members of life lock.

By: sami

sami — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:03:50 +0000

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:59:07 +0000

This service is not yet been announced… You bring up a great point about thieves trying to get themselves listed as the “true owner” of an identity… Actually, since this new service has zero buying power, zero credit power, and zero value thieves won’t gain anything by attempting to register themselves as you. In fact - it will likely be the fastest path to being caught… Think about it this way… If you came with a national system for thieves to go online and register all their stolen cards who would sign up? No one! If by some chance a thief was stupid enough to try to register as you, they could nothing with it. They can’t buy anything and they couldn’t use it to gain credit. You might ask, “but if they have stolen my identity in the registry how can I stop it? The answer is simple, just register yourself and your account will be flagged (because there can be only one you) and the thief will be caught and the real you will stand. All you need to do is just register yourself and that’s it. No privacy issues, no sharing of information, just a simple free way to create a secure identity notification record that only you can control. I’ll keep you posted as this service is announced. I’m close to the development of the service so any comments are welcome.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:51:06 +0000

I’ve never heard of that service…especially for free. I guess my concern with it would be if theives later learn how to get themselves listed as the “true owner”. Either way…it sounds like something I’ll want to look into.

For now, I have a service that not only monitors my credit, but offers credit repair to my pre-theft status should anything happen. I think that’s an awesome part of the service. Most plans offer credit monitoring but not credit repair.

I was a victim of ID theft 10 years ago and, believe it or not, I’m STILL dealing with it! I learned a couple of months ago that the thief tried to do it again…this time she got a car! Luckily for me, the dealership she got the car from realized there was shady business going on and contacted me right away so I’m in the clear on that…but I don’t ever want to have to go thru that again!

I was told by the dealership that most ID theives know when the statute of limitations runs out and try again! That’s exactly what happened to me. The statute of limitations here in California is now seven years. That’s a great step forward from two years! But, unfortunately for me, now that I know who did it, there’s nothing I can do about it.

Daisy

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:01:57 +0000

Correction: This sentence was wrong: “My personal information was stolen/lost by IBM earlier this year, and I know others in the same boat and I’m excited about it.” it should have read: “My personal information was stolen/lost by IBM earlier this year, and I know others in the same boat and I’m excited about this new service and its ability to stop identity theft.”

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:55:44 +0000

Dave:
I promise not to just post and leave… the service is still in the works… and you can’t sign up for it just yet..I’ve personally been involved with it in the early stages of development, but it’s not clear who will bring the service out to market. There are a number of significant players who have been reviewing it (including one of the largest payment systems on the planet) and have stated they would use this new service. It’s a bit different than other fraud detection services in that it keeps the true owner in the loop instead of the standard tools that are behind the scenes and never involve the true owner. That is why the fraud continues - because the thieves adapt faster than the fraud detection systems can catch up. My guess is that you may start to hear about it early in 2008… The service has been in the works for just about a year. My personal information was stolen/lost by IBM earlier this year, and I know others in the same boat and I’m excited about it. But it will take a sizable number of consumers signing up to get it off the ground… I’ve had monitoring on my credit for a year now, and frankly it won’t help with stolen credit card fraud, and it costs money. I think it’s about time there was help for consumers that was free and effective. Sorry for the long post, I don’t want to take this too far off the topic thread.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:37:37 +0000

Kelly, you can’t just post something like that and leave. :>

What is the name of the service and where can people sign up for it?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:43:09 +0000

I have gotten wind of a new service being launched that is 100% free of consumer private credit data, stops credit card fraud and identity theft nearly instantly and is free for consumers. There is no risk, no cost, and it guarantees you get notified within seconds of fraudulent activity.

By: boomersrec

boomersrec — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:19:17 +0000

I agree with Lomit, there is not much you can tell by monitoring your credit. While it can help you see what damage, if any, has been done to your credit, it will not show simple identity theft crimes, such as setting up their telephone in your name because they can no longer get a phone due to unpaid bills. It will not show if a person is using your driver’s license information to set up utilities in their name, or opened a PayPal account in your name, or other simple crimes that do not require credit files to be established. Plus, there are people who are doing things you may not have thought of yet.

By: Christi

Christi — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:14:08 +0000

I don’t know what I am more shocked about the fact that they would keep all of that data unprotected on a laptop, or that someone actually lost their laptop!! That should be a prized object, not something you just lose like your car keys!! Incredible. Hopefully companies like that are willing to take on the financial burdens that a person in that company would incur if someone does use the identities. Shame on them - at least the information and the laptop should have been super ultra password and security protected, data encrypted, hidden files, something so that the information was at least somewhat safe depending on who found the laptop. Some people who find something like that would keep it, but are only basic computer users, or would sell it to a computer store to get cash for their stolen goods. Either way, there should be more done about companies who suffer “data loss” that puts innocent victims in line for identity attack.

By: Barb Lowe

Barb Lowe — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:52:17 +0000

This last email I got was for PayPal. I immediately knew it was a scam when it asked for my social securtiy number. Everyone who has a social security number issued to them needs to know they should never type their ssn on the internet no matter what. And valid companies won’t ask for your credit card number because if they are the ones who issued it, then they already have it. Pretty simple really.

By: Lomit Patel

Lomit Patel — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:47:44 +0000

I disagree that credit monitoring helps prevent identity theft. There’s a pretty darn good reason every person has a lock on the front door of their home, and only a few have an alarm system to alert them to the entry of a burglar. Given the choice, people want to prevent a crime, rather than just be notified when a crime is in progress. It makes good sense to take the simple step of locking your door and, as a backup, to monitor that same door if the lock fails.

The same exact logic applies when protecting your identity. First, you should take the steps to prevent identity theft. Then you should think about backup plans to stop a thief from causing too much damage.

Thanks to new laws that went into effect in a number of states across America, it’s likely that you now have the equivalent of the door lock when it comes to protecting your identity and your personal information.

These laws, often called “credit freeze” laws, allow you to lock your credit report at each of the three national credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. Unless you say so, no one can come in and look at your credit data. What’s more, lenders use this very personal information to determine whether or not they want to give you credit. Without access to the credit report data, no bank or credit card company will open new accounts. This effectively keeps the identity thieves out. You can learn more by reading this article on TrustedID.com ID Theft Resource Center at: https://www.trustedid.com/html/identity_theft_protection_resource_007.php

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:28:25 +0000

The best way to prevent ID theft is to subscribe to a REPUTABLE monitoring service that will monitor your credit report IN REAL-TIME with all three bureaus (Experian, Trans Union, and Equifax). Quality monitoring services will alert you by email, phone, or wireless device immediately or daily when your credit report changes. This will ensure you know if someone applies for credit or opens credit in your name. You can stop it the same day before the mess! Please visit the link (strictly informational, nothing for sale) at http://www.venturatown.com for more info.

By: Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:20:59 +0000

Be alert to two criminal families who may be problematic in either Fidelity or HP. The Wright family is a major criminal family in identity theft, property theft, intellectual property theft and drugs, often targeting single women and child trust funds. The small-time Wrights collect material to sell to better-educated, better-connected relatives in NBC, Fox and Disney, where Robert and other Wrights rule. They have enormous political influence in Ohio, where Fidelity has many of their offices. HP had Carly Fiorina and the Fiorinas are cousins of the Capones, who have moved into intellectual property theft.

One of my dad’s cousins married Al Capone’s niece so I know firsthand about the Fiorina connection. The Wrights are legendary in the Southeast since the original plans for the “flying machine” were stolen from a physician in Cullman, AL visited by Orville and Wilbur and their Hale relatives. They now seek uncopyrighted manuscripts as well as unpatented inventions. A SE TN scam utilizing counterfeited police badges was uncovered recently and they were involved; at least one real officer in the housing projects is suspected of fencing rap poetry and unpublished black gospel songs.

Sincerely, a concerned customer