<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>TJX: At least 45.7M card numbers stolen : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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Greg Elder, commander of the New Orleans Police <br/><br/>too bad he had to leave early it was a good game..]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>103</score><crdate>10/20/2008 1:03:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-20T13:03:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>21058</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21058/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Identity theft protection: What to do]]></title><description><![CDATA[Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal identifying information, like your name, Social Security number, or credit card number, without your permission, to commit fraud or other crimes. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year. In fact, you or someone you know may have experienced some form of identity theft. Repairing the damage caused by identity thieves takes time and money.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-33</score><crdate>5/22/2007 1:39:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-22T13:39:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10958</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10958/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bank of America takes fire over migrants' credit cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are you an Illegal? No Social Security Number? Don't have a home address? Do you live out of your car? Have you been trying to get a checking account and Banks won't even give you the time of day?  Well, your worries are over!  We at the Bank of America feel your pain and we're here to help.  Come on down and we'll give you a credit card!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>25</score><crdate>2/16/2007 5:15:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-16T17:15:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39559</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39559/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Verizon worker stole customer IDs]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman who worked at a Verizon store at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream stole the identities of more than 25 customers and used their personal information to get fraudulent credit cards, Nassau police said.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>64</score><crdate>10/25/2007 1:35:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-25T13:35:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17405</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/17405/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Via Details Credit Card-Sized Motherboard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. Thursday released details of its upcoming Pico-ITX motherboard, which is roughly the same size as a credit card and opens the door to very small PC designs.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>91</score><crdate>4/22/2007 4:27:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-22T04:27:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8502</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/8502/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cat gets credit card with $4000 limit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Messiah Campbell was considered a good enough credit risk to be given a card with a $4200 limit - which was surprising, considering he's a cat.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>184</score><crdate>1/3/2007 4:55:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-03T16:55:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12514</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/12514/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Congress Critisizes Credit Card Companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Woot alliteration<br/><br/>Congress takes steps to get rid of shady and confusing credit card policies]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>130</score><crdate>3/7/2007 7:14:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-07T19:14:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36163</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36163/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Debit or credit? Here's the answer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paper or plastic? Credit or debit? These are the questions that haunt consumers as they head to the checkout line every day.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>38</score><crdate>9/19/2007 1:24:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-19T13:24:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8874</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8874/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bad credit? Do NOT cancel your credit cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[If your credit card spending is out of control, you may be tempted to cancel some of your cards so that you can elevate your score. But simply cutting up the card the old-fashioned way, rather than canceling it, may be the better way to go.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>30</score><crdate>1/10/2007 8:53:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-10T20:53:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>83008</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83008/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Internet boss gives away &#163;10,000 by projecting his credit card details onto a wall in 10ft-high letters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bertrand Bodson, 33, who runs website Bragster.com, displayed a massive version of his MasterCard on the side of the Bank of England and a corner of Kensington High Street.<br/><br/>The projection gave directions to a website where Bodson had provided his address for telephone and online purchases. The card had &#163;10,000 of credit.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>230</score><crdate>11/27/2008 8:26:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-27T20:26:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4339</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/4339/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Researchers see privacy pitfalls in no-swipe credit cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[The card companies have implied through their marketing that the data is encrypted to make sure that a digital eavesdropper cannot get any intelligible information.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/24/2006 9:57:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-24T21:57:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>78141</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/78141/1/</url><title><![CDATA[$1.1 Million Worth Of PLAYSTATION 3 Games Stolen... Twice!]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#163;600,000 ($1.1 million) worth of PLAYSTATION 3 games are missing in the UK after being stolen twice -- first from their shipping driver, and then again from the Leeds police's &quot;secure&quot; depot.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>183</score><crdate>9/29/2008 7:51:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-29T19:51:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>65349</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/65349/1/</url><title><![CDATA[CT brings back different gas pricing for cash and credit cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[CT is now allowing gas station owners to offer discounted prices to consumer who pay with cash rather than a credit card. Considering the bite credit card companies take out of each transaction this is great news for station owners and customers.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>28</score><crdate>6/13/2008 7:57:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-13T19:57:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58026</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/58026/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Federal Goverment Wastes More Money (Again)]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Federal employees charged millions of dollars for Internet dating, tailor-made suits, lingerie, lavish dinners and other questionable expenses to their government credit cards over a 15-month period, congressional auditors say.&quot;]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>33</score><crdate>4/13/2008 3:39:20 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T03:39:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46340</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/46340/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Stolen Rodeo Bulls Recovered After Theft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Police recovered a stolen truck and its cargo of rodeo bulls, but the thief who rustled them remains on the lam.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>38</score><crdate>1/8/2008 2:01:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-08T02:01:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75692</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/75692/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Former Countrywide Financial employee arrested for selling personal customer information]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yet another jackass screwing with our personal data.  <br/><br/>Sometimes, when I am in a paranoid mood, I think this is done on purpose just so the victims will get the free credit tracking service and the Gov't will know what they are doing with their money.<br/><br/>But only when I am in a paranoid mood.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>181</score><crdate>9/10/2008 3:58:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-10T15:58:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51259</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51259/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Stolen Paintings Found]]></title><description><![CDATA[Police found paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet that were among four paintings worth $163 million stolen from a private museum in a Feb. 10 armed robbery.<br/><br/>The original post about the heist is <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/crime/l/50120/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a>]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>267</score><crdate>2/19/2008 12:18:24 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-19T12:18:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>77496</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/77496/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Thieves stealing children's identities]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 34,000 identity theft reports to the Federal Trade Commission from 2005 to 2007 concerned children under age 18.<br/><br/>I would hate to have my credit ruined before I even got a chance to ruin it myself.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>83</score><crdate>9/24/2008 6:13:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-24T18:13:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70197</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/70197/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Would You Vote for a Presidential Candidate Based on Their Credit Card Debt?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was recently reported that John McCain and his wife Cindy may have as much as $250,000 in credit card debt. They also reported that they have an American Express card for a &quot;dependent child&quot; that is carrying a balance of between $15,000 and $50,000. On the flip side, Barack Obama reported no credit card debt in his annual financial disclosures.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>64</score><crdate>7/26/2008 6:50:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-26T18:50:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44568</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44568/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Stolen Credit Cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today credit card thieves can steal plastics without being noticed. Until you report the bank, they check whether your card is usable or not using charitable donations. If yes, then thousands of dollars will be spent on your card.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>21</score><crdate>12/18/2007 6:43:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-18T06:43:19+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>