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	<title>LegalNewsWatch &#187; Identity Theft</title>
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		<title>MasterCard: Breach Exposes 40 Million Credit Cards to Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Data of 3.9 Million CitiFinancial Customers Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Warner Says Data on 600,000 Employees Lost by Outside Firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2005 22:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s storage facilities. The U.S. Secret Service is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identify Theft of Nearly 32,000 U.S. Citizens, LexisNexis Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal informaiton on as many as 32,000 U.S. citizens &#8211; including names, addresses and Social Security numbers &#8211; may have been fraudulently accessed at LexisNexis&#8217;s recently acquired Seisint unit, the company&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ChoicePoint Alerts 145,000 Consumers Over Possible Identity Theft</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ChoicePoint, a data-aggregation company, said Monday that it is notifying nearly 145,000 consumers nationwide whose confidential data &#8211; including credit reports and Social Security numbers &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Companies Must Notify Customers if Personal Data is Stolen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s license number or credit card number and password, has been stolen or acquired by an unauthorized person. Affected customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Busts ID Theft Ring</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario Lozano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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