Fighting Identity Theft In Iowa
Podcast: Lessons To Be Learned About Protecting Your Identity Online
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We wrap up our series of podcasts about cyber security’s future. The big question: Will cyber theft be more of a danger in everyone’s lives?
IowaWatch (https://www.iowawatch.org/tag/cyber-theft/)
We wrap up our series of podcasts about cyber security’s future. The big question: Will cyber theft be more of a danger in everyone’s lives?
Part of a four-part series:
Episode 3
We talk in a teleconference with Mauro Loda and Sharyl Sauer from DuPont Pioneer. Loda explains how the company protects its clients’ identities and product secrets. TO LEARN HOW IOWAWATCH’S NONPROFIT JOURNALISM IS FUNDED AND HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT IT, GO TO THIS LINK. This podcast is part of a spring 2017 IowaWatch/Simpson College journalism project reporting on cyber identify theft. COMING UP
Watch for this next, on May 17: Episode 4 – Clayton and Erich talk with Alex Kirkpatrick, a member of the spring 2017 IowaWatch/Simpson College team who focused on cyber security laws.
We talk with Shane Cox, a Simpson College associate professor of accounting, about the ways an average person views cyber security, what that person thinks about identity theft and how to protect personal information. Cox gives us an “average person” look at cyber security. Part of a series.
Identity theft via the Internet in Iowa is growing, keeping ahead of the pace at which we can stop it. This special IowaWatch/Simpson College journalism reporting project explains.
Overnight, Christy Eichelberger became an identity theft victim. A hacker spent $1,300 of her money on virtual reality game pieces – items she knew nothing about.
A week after Allyson Nielsen, 25, and her fiancé moved in August 2015 from their Chicago, Illinois, apartment to a new one about four blocks away, she found out she was a victim of identity theft – as if moving isn’t stressful enough.
After receiving a call in January 2017 about a past due payment, Elizabeth Bell quickly realized something wasn’t right. She soon found out someone had opened a card in her name through Amazon, spending $1,800 in less than two months.
Megan Stufflebeem saw $200 get stolen from her bank account in a six-hour time period with one transaction made in California and another in Ohio.
A Farm Bureau Insurance information technology specialist tells how the company protects your sensitive, personal information.