Another busy holiday season filled with gift giving and shopping bags from the Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets, Mayfair or perhaps Gurnee Mill Shopping Center, is upon us. It is no surprise that electronic and mobile devices are expected to be a popular choice for recipients of all ages … laptops, tablets, smartphones, gaming devices, etc. Unfortunately, along with these […]
Why is it important to properly dispose documents that are no longer of use? Proper document destruction is essential in this day and age. Virtually every business handles confidential information. Businesses should be concerned about protecting their customer’s privacy, obeying laws that require shredding, protecting their employee’s privacy and protecting their company and shareholders by […]
You Need To Adapt As HIPAA Adapts A Reuters article in September of 2014 sounded the alarm on the theft of digital medical records, asserting that, “Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market.” Needless to say, medical document destruction is VERY important. Citing an ease of […]
100,000 Households Compromised In Major Breach To IRS In an interview with the Intercept about the data breach affecting the IRS (and other high profile data breaches), Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that “the message I give journalists and others is there’s basically nothing you can do.” Tien is referring to […]
For the past 15 years, Identity Theft has been the top consumer complaint reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2014, they received over 330,000 complaints from consumers who fell victim to identity theft. Now, they have a website dedicated to the crime. The FTC has launched their website, IdentityTheft.gov, to make reporting and recovering from […]
Spring Means Graduation Season is Here Again This Spring’s graduates have enough to worry about with a reported record of $35,051 in student loan debt, on average. The last thing they need as they head out into the job pool and look to start building their lives is to have accumulated mysterious debt or had their credit […]
Where Identity Theft Hits Most A recent story reported by the website 247wallst.com included the 9 states with the most identity theft complaints. Luckily for us, Wisconsin was not among them (ranked 27th) but this is not a reason to be complacent. The amount of identity theft, per 100,000 residents is still significant. In 2014, there were 4,283 […]
Take Advantage in the Time of Renewal to Reorganize Your Life Spring is a time for renewal and reorganization. This is the perfect time to get rid of those old documents that have been laying around, to check your credit and to make changes to your digital trail. The Home It’s time to take stock […]
Why is Having a Document Destruction Plan Necessary? In the world of identity theft, particularly in the digital age, employer records and important client information have become a couple of the top sources of the crime. For example, it was recently reported that over 29 million patients have had their information compromised digitally at healthcare facilities and […]
Have Things Really Changed? Times are changing, but ways your identity can be compromised might not be. A focus on mobile access, typically with smartphones, has shown that there has been an increase in mobile banking and bill pay. Using these practices quickly becomes a habit and may take away from focusing on what kind […]