Even Those We Trust Can’t Be Trusted With Privacy Data
Posted by Russ Ray on April 22, 2008
Here are a few examples:
- A postal worker on Long Island was arrested after he stole credit cards from his customers’ mail and ran up a tab on them.
- LendingTree.com informed its customers that a group of former employees shared confidential passwords with lenders that were unaffiliated with LendingTree and accessed data such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, income and employment information.
- A couple in Minnesota were posting personal ads on Craigslist for sexual encounters and then stealing identities, checks, and credit card information to purchase merchandise and prescription drugs.
Who do you / can you trust in these days of rampant identity theft? As we’ve been discussing in class, there are a lot of ways that you can safeguard yourself–you just have to be vigilant.
