Forty million credit cards of all brands might have been exposed to fraud through a security breach at a third-party payment processing company, MasterCard International reported Friday in a statement. About 13.9 million of the potentially exposed cards are MasterCard-branded cards.
MasterCard said its team of security experts identified that the breach occurred at Arizona-based CardSystems […]

A box of computer tapes containing personal information on 3.9 million customers of CitiFinancial was lost recently by United Parcel Service, while in transit to a credit bureau, Citigroup said Monday. CitiFinancial, the consumer finance subsidiary of Citigroup, has begun mailing a letter to all customers affected by the breach in security.
The tapes contained names, […]

Time Warner Inc. reported Monday the loss of computer backup tapes containing personal information, including the names and Social Security numbers of about 600,000 current and former employees. A container holding the tapes was lost by an outside data storage firm during shipment to one of the firm’s storage facilities. The U.S. Secret Service is […]

Personal informaiton on as many as 32,000 U.S. citizens - including names, addresses and Social Security numbers - may have been fraudulently accessed at LexisNexis’s recently acquired Seisint unit, the company’s corporate parent said last week.
Reed Elsevier said the incidents arose from the misappropriation of passwords and identification from legitimate customers.
The announcement comes after rival […]

ChoicePoint, a data-aggregation company, said Monday that it is notifying nearly 145,000 consumers nationwide whose confidential data - including credit reports and Social Security numbers - may have been obtained through fraud.
The company said it is unknown how many of these approximately 145,000 consumers may be actual victims of identity theft. Law enforcement officials have […]

In effort to combat identity theft, which experts say is on the rise, a new California law will require companies to notify their customers if their personal digital data, including name and social security number, driver’s license number or credit card number and password, has been stolen or acquired by an unauthorized person. Affected customers […]

NEW YORK - FBI officials said Monday they busted an identity-theft ring that stole the credit files of at least 30,000 people, resulting in losses that total so far $2.7 million. FBI investigators said the scam helped New York street criminals take out loans in the names of the victims, buy merchandise, order credit cards […]