Friday, June 6, 2008

Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss Prosecution

ConfusedVorlon writes The BBC reports on the sad case of Simon Bunce. Mr. Bunce had his identity stolen and credit cards were made to capitalize on the theft. Some of those cards were used at sites offering child pornography and as a result Mr. Bunce was swept up in Operation Ore. The poor man was prosecuted for his crime and was eventually found innocent but in the meantime he lost his job. It took him six months to find another at a quarter of the salary. The police s computer technicians take several months to examine his computers and records and Mr Bunce could not afford to wait to repair the damage done to his reputation. I knew there d been a fundamental mistake made and so I had to investigate it. Recent surveys suggest that as many as one in four Britons have been affected by it. In more than cases of identity theft were identified by Cifas the UK s fraud prevention service an increase of almost on . Read more of this story at Slashdot. Share Last Modified April th ! Filed under Channel News Navigate Previous post Comments No comments What do you think Name required Mail will not be published required Website Comment Recent Posts Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss Prosecution Boot Sector Viruses amp Rootkits Poised For Comeback Engineers Make Good Terrorists Inside Intel s M Multicore Research Program New EMI Boss Says Downloads May Be Good Why Microsoft Surface Took So Long To Deploy New Service Maps Speed Traps By Cell Phone Census Bureau To Scrap Handhelds mdash Cost Billion Intermediate Mass Black Hole Found In Omega Centauri Upgrade Trick Still Present In Vista SP Comcast Offers Mbps Residential Speeds Apple Is Now the US Music Retailer MySpace COO Music deal spawned from user demands Computerworld European Space Freighter Makes Docking Debut Space.com Sprint Delays Xohm To Later This Year InformationWeek Wordpress AjaxBerlee . a Theme WP ACF based upon Brajeshwar RSS Feed XHTML . SEO By Court s Internet Marketing School. Get ! Ajax Berlee Close Email Bookmark Grouptivity Google Bookmarks Facebook Windows Live del.icio.us Digg Yahoo My Web Ask Furl StumbleUpon reddit Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia Tailrank Powered by Email It To Address Your Address Message Check this out

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