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Credit cards
Which credit card issuers attract the most complaints? A top 10 list
GE Capital, Capital One, and Barclays top the list of credit card issuer complaint targets, according to a study released Tuesday by the Public Interest Research Group. Among the top 10 targets, American Express received the fewest complaints, with U.S. Bancorp attracting the second-fewest. The study examined the number of [Keep reading]
Credit cards
Target e-mails victims, releases details about free credit monitoring
Target has begun to e-mail victims of its data leak, and has launched a website that will allow consumers to sign up for free credit monitoring. Consumers can visit CreditMonitoring.Target.com right now and begin the process of signing up for credit monitoring. The firm is taking the added step of [Keep reading]
Identity Theft
Exclusive: Hackers had access to Neiman Marcus systems for nearly three months, source says
Credit card hackers who broke into Neiman Marcus payment systems were able to steal data from the firm between Sept. 1 and Dec. 17, a person familiar with the investigation told BobSullivan.net on Monday. That’s considerably longer than the 18-day window that hackers were said — at least initially — [Keep reading]
Money and Life
Listen to someone you disagree with, and it might make you rich
John Maynard Keynes is one of the most influential and controversial figures of the 20th Century, and he impacts your day to day life more than you know. After all, people who are busy trying to raise children, start a career, bolster retirement savings, care for aging parents, etc., have [Keep reading]
Identity Theft
Target hacking scandal widens; what we know now, and what we still don’t know
Today, Target announced that the victim total from its hacking incident has jumped dramatically. There were 40 million victims whose credit card numbers were compromised. Now, we learn that there’s another list of 70 million victims — hackers made away with other personal information about them, including e-mail and mailing [Keep reading]
Photo stories
Yes, the Hudson did freeze — even in NYC
Wow, it was cold here. Kinda like Mars. Lucky enough to get these pictures today. And lucky the ferry was running! Click here to view these pictures larger Subscribe to Bob Sullivan’s newsletter.
Privacy
She said no to the FBI; but you say yes every day
With all the screaming about the NSA hacking into our lives, Americans have kind of missed the point. We’ve voluntarily given our lives to private companies for years. Government agents don’t have to hack us. They can simply ask any of these companies for everything they have. The Supreme Court [Keep reading]
Gotchas / Consumer
IRS warns tax return ID theft a ‘growth industry’
The IRS tries very hard to send out tax refunds quickly, so it sometimes sends them to the wrong person. Criminals have figured this out, and increasingly try to jump between you and your tax refund. They do this by filing a tax return before you do. Your solution: File [Keep reading]
Kids and Tech
Are your kids part of the Vanishing Web? Better find out
Snapchat was the target of the first real hacker data leak of 2014, with data on 4.6 million members taken and posted online. It happened during the holidays; perhaps you missed it. Or perhaps you don’t know what the heck Snapchat is. Now would be a good time to find [Keep reading]