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Texas company uses shredded checks as packing material
While there are many proactive steps that consumers can take to help mitigate the risk of identity theft but, unfortunately, there is no way to prevent companies from making bad decisions on how they handle their customer’s personal information. Take the video below as a case in point. A small Texas specialty foods [...]

Avoid data breaches - encrypt your Gmail!
Google recently created an option for Gmail users to ensure that their email is securely encrypted using SSL. All you have to do to permanently encrypt your email is go to your Gmail settings page and, next to “Browser connection,” select “Always use https.” When viewing your Gmail, check the address bar. If it says [...]

What is an APR?
Your APR, or annual percentage rate, is the yearly interest rate you will pay if you carry a balance on your credit card. You will also be charged interest if you transfer a balance from another card or take out a cash advance. One credit card may have several different APRs. There may be one [...]

Give me some credit!
Do you spend money? Do you shop online? Do you make hotel reservations? If so, chances are you have a credit card. But with so many credit card choices available, it can be nearly impossible to know which one is best for you. There are low APR credit cards, there are balance transfer credit cards, [...]

Helpful hints about credit cards
The Consumerist recently posted 10 Things You Might Not Know About Your Credit Card and 10 Credit Card Company Tricks to Beware. Credit card terms and policies tend to be long and complicated, but The Consumerist addresses some common questions as well as some that you might not even think to ask. Some of these hints [...]

Why use a balance tranfer card?
A balance transfer card is any credit card that allows cardholders to transfer a balance from a different credit card. Balance transfers can be a very helpful and effective means of managing credit card debt. If you have a credit card with a high APR and you are unable to pay your balance in full, [...]

Data Breach Alert: Countrywide financial analyst stole data
Early this month, a former Countrywide senior financial analyst was arrested for stealing and selling Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information for up to 2 million mortgage applicants over a two year period. Rene L. Rebollo Jr. was working at Full Spectrum Lending, Countywide’s subprime lending division. According to the FBI, Robollo confessed [...]

Data Breach Alert: Princeton Review accidently publishes personal data and te...
When switching servers in June, the Princeton Review accidentally published names, standardized test scores, birthdays, ethnicities and other personal information for about 34,000 public school students in Sarasota, Florida. For seven weeks, this data and many other sensitive documents were available to anyone typing in a fairly simple web address, as well as through search [...]

Netflix shipments are back on track
After a three day shipping delay last week, Netflix is shipping DVDs at their normal pace once again. Any backlogged shipments should have been sent out on Friday. All customers whose shipments were delayed will receive a 15% discount on their next bill, and any new customers who were using the service on a free [...]

Identity Theft 911 releases a new study on identity theft in California
Identity Theft 911, an identity theft protection provider, released a new study this week detailing the impact of identity theft in California. The study includes some interesting statistics, such as: Nearly 1.5 million Californians were victims of identity theft in 2007 Identity theft cost Californians an estimated $749 million in out of pocket expenses in 2007 Californians spent [...]