TRANS UNION MAKES $245 MILLION IN 1ST QUARTER OF 2011
Trans Union announced its 1st quarter revenue for 2011 – $245.9 million an increase of 8.3% compared 1st quarter of 2010. Tran Union’s operating income was…
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EQUIFAX VOLUNTARY SECURITY FREEZE PROGRAM
According to Equifax, if you live in Alabama (a state without a state mandated freeze alert) you can place a…
Read More →EXPERIAN HIRES NEW MARKETING EXEC
Experian announced the addition of Paul Cannon to its Account Management team. Cannon will be responsible for managing and growing…
Read More →WHAT IS MY CREDIT SCORE?
Several factors influence your credit (also called your FICO or Beacon) score. The categories of these factors include payment history, amounts owed,…
Read More →More than 1 Million Massachusetts Residents Affected by Data Breach
Over 1 million residents of Massachusetts residents have been the victim of a data breach between November 1, 2007 and…
Read More →HSBC EXPOSED SENSITIVE BANKRUPTCY DATA
HSBC Bank says it found a bug in its imaging software that exposed the sensitive data about an unnumbered amount…
Read More →Courts protect big companies from liability even when companies expose consumers to increase risk of harm
Last month, a disturbing opinion was issued by a federal judge in Missouri. Amburgy v. Express Scripts was filed in the…
Read More →Philly Hospital Laptop Stolen With Patient Data
A laptop computer containing Social Security numbers and other personal information for 943 people was stolen from a car outside…
Read More →Laptop Stolen from Aurora St. Luke’s Hospital
A Milwaukee hospital is warning more than six-thousand patients whose personal identifying information may have been stolen. A laptop was…
Read More →FICO reveals credit report damage points data
FICO, for the first time, has publicly disclosed the extent of “damage points” data on consumers’ credit scores (aka beacon…
Read More →IDENTITY THIEF SENTENCED TO PRISON
A former Johns Hopkins Medicine employee, Michelle Courtney Johnson, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. In addition to…
Read More →Health Net Loses Over 1.5 Million Patient Records on Hard Drive
1.5 million Health Net customers’ personal and medical information is at risk after a hard drive was lost six months…
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