Tag: breach

November 15, 2017

Identity Theft’s Reality

ID Agent is excited to offer this guest blog post from Megan Wells. Megan is a data journalist and content strategist at InvestmentZen who has written content on how data theft impacts Americans, technological interventions for personal and commercial finance and content for IBM and NASDAQ. With her examination of costs and the impact of Data Breaches, she shares how detrimental identity theft can be for MSP customers and their employees. Be sure to download her useful Infographic at the link below!

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September 08, 2017

Equifax’s Giant Security Breach – Inside Job?

Equifax’s giant cybersecurity breach announced yesterday – one of the worst ever – compromised the personal information of almost half the U.S. – potentially 143 million Americans. Residents in the U.K. and Canada were also affected. Based on Equifax’s investigation, the unauthorized access occurred from mid-May through July 2017.

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May 29, 2017

IRS Announces Pre-Breach Identity Protection Services Are Non-Taxable

On December 30th, 2015, the IRS officially announced that employers are not required to include the value of pre-breach identity protection services in employee gross income. This adds to a previous announcement where the IRS stated in August 2015,with announcement 2015-22, that post-breach identity protection benefits would have preferential tax treatment.

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May 04, 2017

Can Your Employees’ Personal Identity Theft Affect Your Organization?

Identity theft continues to grow at an alarming rate. Statistics show that 3% of the U.S. population experienced credit card fraud at least once in 2014. Not to mention that, “an estimated 17.6 million persons were victims of one or more incidents of identity theft,” in the same year, as reported by theU.S. Department of Justice. This is up by a significant amount from the 16.6 million cases of identity theft in 2012.

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April 27, 2017

The Anatomy of an Email Data Breach

Verizon’s recent announcement of a data breach in their Enterprise Solutions unit is just the most recent of a staggeringly high number of organizational data breaches in the U.S.

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