ID Theft

Mortgage Lenders Benefit with the Most Accurate Identification Results Together with Improved Processing Productivity

Consortium Releases CARML (Client Attribute Requirements Markup Language) and Privacy Constraints Draft Specifications to Protect Personally Identifiable Information Across Applications and Networks

Framework Drives Trust Across Identity-Enabled Applications Based on Standardized and Certified Identity Assurance Levels

Release of IAF and IGF Drives Standardized Identity Assurances and Policy-Based Data and Privacy Protection across Identity-Enabled Applications and Networks

Free Webinar Will Discuss How the Bank Centralized Identity Data Across Applications Relevant to Sarbanes-Oxley in 60 Days.

DALLAS and LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 12 (www.AllpayNews.com) -- Entrust, Inc.

Electronic Audit Trails From 259,761 High-Risk Consumers Prove Consumer Participation Can Virtually Eliminate New Account Fraud

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. 18-JUL-2007 05:00 AM (www.AllPayNews.com) - Oracle today announced that it has agreed to acquire Bharosa, Inc., a leading provider of software that helps combat online identity theft and fraud. Strong authentication and fraud detection are increasingly critical components of identity management deployments and are seeing rapid adoption. Driven by regulatory mandates such as FFIEC, PCI, and HIPAA, organizations are under pressure to reduce fraud and provide higher levels of assurance of users' identities and their usage intent.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (www.AllPayNews.com) – Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE: FIS) announced today that its subsidiary, Certegy Check Services, Inc. (“Certegy”), a service provider to U.S. retail merchants, based in St. Petersburg, Fla., was victimized by a former employee who misappropriated and sold consumer information to a data broker who, in turn, sold a subset of that data to a limited number of direct marketing organizations. The incident does not involve any outside intrusion into, or compromise of, Certegy’s technology systems.

Partnership incorporates Edentify’s identity fraud solutions with GIS’s arsenal of employment screening technology—giving GIS clients robust identity fraud screening capabilities

BETHLEHEM, Pa.--(www.AllPayNews.com)--Edentify Inc. (OTC BB:EDFY.OB), a leading provider of identity management and fraud detection solutions, today announced its partnership with General Information Services, Inc. (GIS), one of the largest human resources-solution providers in the country. Edentify will bundle its suite of identity fraud prevention solutions—including IDAssess, IDScreen, and IDAlert—with GIS’s portfolio of employment screening services, giving its clients broader employee screening capabilities. Edentify now has the opportunity to deliver its technology to GIS’s nationwide customer base of over 4,000 major corporations. This customer base includes financial institutions, retail stores, insurance companies and many Fortune 500 companies. Likewise, GIS customers will have access to a robust identity fraud detection solution to conduct better background checks on current and prospective employees.

The recently passed New York state law provides New York residents with the option to "freeze" their credit information, effectively keeping identity theft thieves out and valuable credit information secure.

Source: By TED GRIFFITH, The News Journal

The Wilmington-based credit card unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. said today that it accidentally discarded computer tapes containing the personal information of 2.6 million people with Circuit City-branded credit cards and store charge cards.

NEW YORK, NY -- (AllPayNews) -- June 26, 2006 -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), in partnership with the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB), has announced its intent to establish a new standards panel to address identity theft prevention and identity management standards. Once formed, the Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel would serve as a cross-sector coordinating body, applying use-case practices to promote and harmonize the timely development of voluntary consensus standards to minimize the scope and scale of identity theft.

Wachovia Corp., some of whose debit card holders have been victimized by a data breach that happened several months ago, began sending notices and replacement cards to those customers recently because it began to see signs of fraud after months of monitoring the accounts, the bank says. Although Wachovia’s action made the breach public knowledge, observers say the bank is not likely to be the only financial institution whose debit cards have been compromised in this latest incident of leaked card data.

Delegation of More Than 1,000 Gathers for Exuberant Exchange of Information During 28th Annual Conference; Los Angeles Selected to Host 29th Annual Meeting in 2007
CHATSWORTH, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/19/2006 -- More than 1,000 Notaries, industry leaders, and national and international dignitaries convened in Washington, D.C., May 27-31 at the National Notary Association's 28th annual Conference for strategic discussion and education on the vital role of America's 4.5 million Notaries Public in e-commerce and protecting citizens against identity fraud, forgery and terrorism.