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Voter registration laptops stolen, leaving 25,000 vulnerable to identity theft

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

It’s just the nature of the beast. In a democracy, not everyone will be happy with the results on the day after a presidential election. But in Charlottesville NC, Republicans and Democrats alike are disgusted and afraid for their futures.

Not because of the election results, but because someone stole two laptop computers that contained names, addresses, dates of birth and Department of Motor Vehicle customer numbers for every registered voter in town. (more…)

Massive digital cache of stolen accounts, logins and passwords discovered. We all need LifeLock’s ID theft protection.

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

The RSA FraudAction Research Lab announced on Friday it had discovered a digital cache of more than a half million stolen online bank logins, passwords and credit card account numbers, and speculated that a Russian identity theft ring stole the information.

A computer virus called the Sinowal Trojan Horse is to blame for the massive theft, and has been collecting the data since 2006. (more…)