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 […]
How Important is a Secure Document Shredding Strategy? Often, in day-to-day business operations, the focus on effective data and document destruction for privacy, protection, and regulatory reasons is neglected or simply forgotten. This leaves businesses open to having data lost or stolen, identities and the personal information compromised, and is bad business when taking a […]
A Recent Trip To The Accountant Shined A Light On The Problem Of Tax Fraud Coincidences can turn into inspiration at any time. We recently had our taxes done by a local accountant. When we showed up to meet with them the police were on their way out. Apparently the accountant had to let a […]
Protecting Yourself Against The Digital Shift In Identity Theft A recent Federal Trade Commission report stated that identity theft was again the number 1 consumer complaint in 2014. This news is coming out just as the Guardian is reporting that the new Apple Pay platform has been targeted to steal credit card details, and the popular online tax platform, […]
Navigating The Shift In Data Destruction A decade ago having a secure shredding strategy may have been enough to keep most people protected when dealing with the possibility of identity theft. Shredding documents that contained banking information, medical information, and financials was commonplace. Once these documents were destroyed, you were largely protected. The last few […]