A wholesale brokerage operation launched a practice specializing in cyber liability coverage, which protects businesses against the damages that come from identity theft, data breach and other forms of cyber crime.

Fewer businesses appear to be affected by the new federal Red Flag Rule, which took effect Dec. 31, 2010.

An Elmore County, Ala., tax return preparer was indicted in Alabama for allegedly using people’s personal information to steal $53,000 in tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.

Assist America, a provider of global emergency services through employee benefit plans, has expanded the scope of its program to include comprehensive identity theft prevention and resolution services.

Assurant Specialty Property has added multifamily housing as a new distribution channel for ID Fraud Solutions, its consumer identity protection program.

In what he is calling a “historic” lawsuit, Connecticut’s attorney general has filed suit against Health Net of Connecticut for a data breach jeopardizing the personal information of 446,000 of its members.

A Covina, Calif., man, who already lost his insurance license for fraud violations in 2003, is now accused of stealing a former employee’s identity to enable him to collect commissions from life insurance policies.

Norwalk, Conn.-based Affinion Security Center is offering its identity theft insurance in New York to its current members in the state, along with enrollees through their financial institution.

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A Baltimore, Md., woman working as a claims clerk for a health insurance adjuster has pleaded guilty to obtaining at least $174,000 in cash and merchandise by stealing the identities …  Read →

An ex-employee of Philadelphia-based Colonial Penn Life Insurance faces numerous criminal charges for using company computers to steal the information of at least 120 customers.

A federal grand jury charged Lisa …  Read →