Whether or not you have a credit card or a bank account, it is possible to freeze your credit to prevent identity thieves from jeopardizing your credit profile. With bad
Two men from Miami were arrested after West Palm Beach police apprehended them and another man in the theft of credit cards and cellphones from purses of patrons celebrating St. Patrick's Day.
that is the same technology as cassette tapes. just about as old. to oversimplify things if you switch to the computer chip, doesn t necessarily make it harder to get data off credit card, it makes it harder to use it. the obstacle is infrastructure. 95% of the europe, european retailers are using the chip, only about 10% of u.s. retailers are equipped to use it. gregg: let s hope the law enforcement gets to the bad guys. mike tobin, thanks very much. reporter: you got it. martha: the target data breach is one of the largest credit card thefts in u.s. history, second only to a scam in 2005. that involved tjx companies, the retail giant between tj maxx, marshall s and home goods. 45.7 million card users were affected that time around. gregg: people are finding obamacare a lot more expensive than the older plans they had
radel is out of rehab and saying he has no plans to resign. radel pleaded guilty to buying cocaine a month ago. he said his drug and alcohol problem never got in the way of his official duties and he wants drug testing for all congress members. the florida congressman is on probation for a year and is under investigation by the house ethics committee. it is one of the biggest credit card thefts ever. tens of millions of target shoppers are checking their credit and deb it statements furiously to see if they are victims. up next, two experts on what you should do. and ah, so you can see like right here i can just. you know, check my policy here, add a car, ah speak to customer service, check on a claim.you know, all with the ah, tap of my geico app. oh, that s so cool. well, i would disagree with you but, ah, that would make me a liar. no dude, you re on the jumbotron! whoa. ah.yeah, pretty much walked into that one. geico anywhere anytime. just a tap away on the geico app.