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FBI, Congress Considers National Data-Breach Law
Posted on October 30th, 2009 No commentsDuring a cybersecurity discussion held Wednesday in Washington D.C., Jeffrey Troy, chief of the FBI’s Cyber Criminal Section, said that law enforcement agencies could get a better grip on fighting the surge of cybercrimes if businesses were legally required to report data breaches to potential victims. Essentially this “data-breach notificatio…
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ID theft getting harder to stop
Posted on September 18th, 2009 No commentsWhatever tools an identity thief is using, whether Dumpster diving for individual credit card numbers, or stealing identities by the millions — “the damage that you can do to someone is exactly the same,” said Wayne Ivey, a Florida law enforcement officer who has specialized in identity theft investigations for more than 15 years. But this rapidly evolving crime is becoming more difficult to stop, Ivey said: Only one in 700 identity thieves is ever arrested.
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ID theft getting harder to stop
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