Who Has the Keys to Your Credit File?
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Anyone with a "permissible purpose" can peruse your credit history.
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Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Washington Mutual rate highest for consumer ID theft protection.
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What you'll be held responsible for if your credit card is lost or stolen.
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Worried about people accessing your  private information whenever you use a public computer? There  is a way to protect yourself: Devices as small as a keychain  allow you to use any computer without leaving a trail of  evidence.
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SEEKONK -- With help from US Secret Service agents, Stop &amp; Shop Supermarket Cos. executives scrambled yesterday to determine how many consumers may have had their credit and debit card data stolen by high-tech thieves who apparently broke into checkout-line card readers and planted the equivalent of bugs to steal information.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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Static passwords expose 'keys to the kingdom' says survey Half of all enterprises have more administrative passwords than those attached to ordinary user accounts. Many (42 per cent) of these privileged passwords are never changed, according to a survey.â¦
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Sensitive customer details are lost in an Atlanta burglary - the third such theft in a year. For the third time in a year, criminals have stolen computers that contained names and sensitive financial information of customers of Wells Fargo &amp; Co.
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Want a free peek at your credit file? Don't hold your breath.
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Home credit lenders are told   they must provide clearer information to consumers about loan costs.
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Many 'contactless' credit cards can allow their owner's name and card number to be read at a distance.
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By Anonymous  Computer Security PEOPLE who use their home computers to access Thrift Savings Plan accounts can be vulnerable to having their personal information stolen.
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Thousands of Wells Fargo &amp; Co. mortgage and student-loan customers might be at risk for identity theft after four computers were stolen in October from a vendor that prints loan statements.
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I&#39;ve heard that some people will now have free access to their credit reports. How do I get mine? Whether or not you can get a free credit report depends on where you live.
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WHAT do banks call it when a troubled borrower abandons her home, sending them the keys?.
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Blog: PayPal rolls out its security key fob, a little device designed to thwart password-stealing bad guys out to pilfer your online payment account.
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The nation&#39;s three biggest credit reporting companies have announced details about how consumers can receive copies of their credit reports for free once a year