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Thieves are stealing personal information to answer Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicle online security questions, get access to accounts and order drivers licenses to be mailed to new addresses, state ...
The research and followup with all state DMVs would take more than a year. The firm was able to ID 36 State DMVs that were selling motor vehicle records in bulk. An analysis then was required of all of the people and entities obtaining the data to determine if it appeared they had a DPPA permissible use as required by the DPPA.
Tools and reports the NICB provides to combat car theft include VINCheck, "a free lookup service provided to the public to assist in determining if a vehicle may have a record of an insurance theft claim", [3] a Report Fraud hotline, [4] and two reports: Hot Wheels, which lists the most commonly stolen vehicles; [5] and Hot Spots, the locations ...
The Identity Theft Resource Center said there were 662 data breaches in the United States in 2010, almost a 33% increase from the previous year. [19] Between January, 2015 and September, 2017, the Identity Theft Resource Center estimates that there were 7,920 breaches affecting more than one billion records that could lead to identity theft. [18]
A 2012 identity fraud report by Javelin Strategy & Research says that cases of identity theft increased by 13 percent in 2011, with more than 11.6 million U.S. adults becoming victims.
A survey of 144 ID theft victims who reached out to the nonprofit in 2022 found that almost two-thirds said their issues were still unresolved months after discovering the fraud. The lasting ...
Robert Ivan Nichols, alias Joseph Newton Chandler III (September 12, 1926 – c. July 23, 2002), was a formerly unidentified American identity thief who committed suicide in Eastlake, Ohio, in July 2002. After his death, investigators were unable to locate his family and discovered that he had stolen the identity of an eight-year-old boy who ...
A number of states collect some form of death data from all their jails. In others, the reporting process is far from comprehensive. Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population.