Sunday, May 18, 2008

Department of Irony

The Charleston Gazette - News - ID theft protection firm sued�: "For a time, the ads were everywhere on TV and radio, the ones with the head of a security company brazenly challenging would-be thieves to try to steal his identity.

Richard Todd Davis, CEO of LifeLock Inc., was so confident in his company's ability to protect his identity that he publicly revealed his Social Security number: 457-55-5462.

But according to a new class-action lawsuit filed last week in Jackson County, LifeLock's identity theft protection services were so inept that Davis' personal information was stolen repeatedly.

'While LifeLock has only publicly acknowledged that Davis' identity was compromised on one occasion, there are more than 20 driver's licenses that have been fraudulently obtained [using his personal information],' the suit states."

3 comments:

Randy Johnson said...

I never bought those claims when he was making them. I could never understand how his company could prevent someone from simply writing his number off the screen and using it for whatever. Most people, I've learned over my considerable years, are in to much of a pass the buck deal to do the proper checking when someone applies for cards(credit, driver's license, etc). The computers of today have made such chechs easier, but still apparently not good enough. I thought he was stupid to post his SSN and it seems I was right.

Cap'n Bob said...

The man's a genius. He can now get innumerable credit cards with that SSN, charge them all to the max, and then claim identity theft.

Terrie Farley Moran said...

Unbelievable, or maybe not!