Debt collectors mining your secrets
Gibbs gets a call from a debt collector and learns about skip tracing and the largely unregulated industry behind it
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Running Government Finances Like a Bank
...debt of Asian countries since the Asian Financial Crisis . As justification, governments need to issue debt to support the financial markets, jump start the economy, and develop infrastructure, etc. Sovereigns with large outstanding debt are seen to be more credit risky and more more susceptible to something going wrong. Thus, the IMF issued...
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Laptop stolen from Minnesota Department of Commerce vendor
...debt collection license applicants and licensees
Number Affected
219
Types of Data
Names, Social Security numbers, addresses and state license numbers
Breach Description
A laptop computer containing sensitive personal information belonging to 219 Minnesota real estate, abstractor, appraiser and debt collection license applicants and...
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700,000 records on stolen CCB server
...debt collection purposes by Indiana businesses, on or before March 20, 2008
Number Affected
700,000
Types of Data
personal information, including names, contact information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, dates of service, and medical procedure codes
Breach Description
Indiana residents are hereby alerted to a security breach at...
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Will Economic Slowdown Cause More Consumer Awareness of Security?
...debts , and theyre realigning their needs and wants with a more realistic financial outlook
Of course, if youre broke and have no access to credit you dont have much choice but to be frugal, but is that all thats going on here? Or are consumers tired of being pressured to take on massive debt in order to super size and bling everything? What...
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Just How Vulnerable Is Asia To The Current US Sub-Prime Crisis?
...debt, they would probably say that the exposure is pretty small. In fact, Asian central banks also agree with this notion. Unlike some hedge funds with nearly 100% exposure to the sector, the percentage of exposure to US Sub-Prime trough CDO's are not significant enough to dent the bank's earnings and value. Income streams of these banks are...
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See, they ain't that scientific either
...debt products that are giving banks no end of bellyache. Ironically the conference was held in Las Vegas, and a wonderful quote came from hedge fund manager John Devaney, who said "I'd like to thank the market for dealing me a direct hit. As a trader if you don't get sucker-punched every once in a while, you don't understand what risk is...
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Foundry Networks - Brocade's 3 billion dollar baby
...debt, do they have what it takes to go on and take on Cisco now? The highways and byways of Silicon Valley are littered with companies that have tried to take Cisco out of this market. What about the 7 dwarfs who currently compete in this market. Companies like HP ProCurve , Extreme Networks , Nortel , Enterasys, Alcatel-Lucent and Force 10...
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Foundry Networks - Brocade's 3 billion dollar baby
...debt, do they have what it takes to go on and take on Cisco now? The highways and byways of Silicon Valley are littered with companies that have tried to take Cisco out of this market. What about the 7 dwarfs who currently compete in this market. Companies like HP ProCurve , Extreme Networks , Nortel , Enterasys, Alcatel-Lucent and Force 10...
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Should Banks Believe Their Customers Who Claim Online Fraud?
...debt in her itunes account but later, the ba