A 30-year-old Chicago woman was behind bars Monday facing 20 felony charges alleging she stole more than $50,000 from a McHenry County man during a two-year identity theft scam.
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STUART — Police charged a woman with grand theft and identity theft after she used the Social Security number of a 9-year-old relative to create a bank account for herself, according to a news release.
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Even Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who oversees the nation’s money, can be a victim of identify theft. A local law enforcement official says if you are not careful, the same thing can happen to you.
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The American Bar Association is seeking to bar the Federal Trade Commission from applying its Red Flags Rule, designed to prevent identity theft, to practicing lawyers. An ABA suit filed in …

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A Miami, Florida, man indicted earlier this month in the largest case of identity theft in U.S. history has agreed to plead guilty to 19 felony counts for his role in another massive credit-card data breach, according to a court document.

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Todd Davis has made himself something of a poster child of the identity-theft crisis. Davis, chairman of Arizona-based LifeLock Inc., warns that no one can stop all identity theft, but they can take measures to protect themselves. Of course, LifeLock offers credit-monitoring services. But Davis is so sure LifeLock can protect people’s Social Security numbers [...]

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MIAMI, Aug. 28 — A computer hacker accused of masterminding one of the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history agreed Friday to plead guilty and serve up to 25 years in federal prison.

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The man accused of masterminding the largest identity theft in US history has agreed to plead guilty to related charges, according to court papers filed in Boston federal court

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The only man named by authorities in what they are calling the largest identity theft in history has agreed to plead guilty to charges in an earlier case, suggesting that the bigger probe is fizzling out.
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WASHINGTON – No one is safe from identity theft, not even the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Ben Bernanke’s personal checking account became entangled in an elaborate identity-theft scheme after his wife Anna’s purse was stolen last August at a Capitol Hill Starbucks.

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