Tax Identity Theft… How are you dealing with it?
Financial documents are arriving in the mail, and you are collecting them to send off to your accountant to complete your 2019 tax returns. What could go wrong? Here are a few tips to keep in mind all year long, but particularly at tax time. Only work with credible...
A New Decade of Fraud and Cyber Threat Begins
What can we learn from the last decade to help protect our finances and reputation from fraud and cyber threats. According to Security Magazine, 2019 was tracking to be the worst year for data breaches on record. Compared to the 2018 Q3 report, the total number of...
Why Target the Healthcare Sector?
What are PHI and PII? Protected health information (PHI), also referred to as personal health information, generally refers to demographic information, medical histories, test and laboratory results, mental health conditions, insurance information, and other data that...
Fall into Good Identity Protection Habits
Whether you are planning a late vacation, or simply traveling for work, the incidence of fraud is continuing to increase at a rate of 13%. (Source) Travel brands and online travel agencies (OTA) are no exception to this trend. Rates for this industry have increased in...
Protecting Patients Starts with Protecting Your Employees
Due to the rise of medical identity theft and data breaches, healthcare employees are at a heightened risk of having their personal data stolen. That is driving the critical need to keep employees’ identities and data secured and protected. Providing identity...
Friendly Fraud, Why it is Not-So-Friendly
Almost half of medical identity theft was perpetrated by a relative or someone else they knew. That is why it has earned the label of “the friendly fraud”. According to Consumer Reports, the effects of medical identity theft can be far-reaching, costing victims time,...