Identity Theft

With Bank of America releasing the news over the weekend that it, too, has misplaced or lost personal electronic data, the scope of identity theft continues to explode.

A senate investigation committee beginning to look into the topic Thursday issued a press release in which U.S. Senator Charles Schumer pointed at WestLaw's "People-Find" feature, saying the company's security over the feature was lax. "Anyone who pays 'Westlaw,' the senator said, gets access to millions of social security numbers from Paris Hilton's to Dick Cheny's without their knowledge or permission."

A letter sent on the 24th. asks WestLaw to disable access to social security numbers from that feature.


Prophetically, a CNN article back on Jan. 24th. commented experts as having said that "cyber-crime was ging to be a bigger threat than cyber-terror."