TEMPE, AZ - (May 2, 2007) - According to The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit group in San Diego, since January of 2005 more than 153,000,000 consumers have become potential victims of Identity Theft through losses of personal information. While data losses come from various means, one constant remains -- often the victims have no idea if their information has been used until it’s too late.
Fighting ID theft takes a team effort, thus LifeLock CEO Todd Davis announced today that the nation’s leader in preventing ID Theft has partnered with Virginia-based MyPublicInfo, Inc. to provide consumers a comprehensive plan that would warn of risks and prevent the use of personal information.
"Through our new partnership with MyPublicInfo, Inc., we have the chance to create something totally unique to the marketplace and long overdue," said LifeLock CEO Todd Davis. "Until now, the majority of our clients have come to us because the statistics show that it’s not "if" your information gets compromised, but "when". Now consumers coming to us through MPI will have a firm understanding what kind of risk for ID theft they may have and protection they need."
"MyPublicInfo is pleased to enter into this partnership with Lifelock," said MyPublicInfo CEO Dr. Harold Kraft. "We are combining the proactive protection of our IdentitySweep service with Lifelock's comprehensive identity theft prevention, assuring consumers that they are safe from identity theft and fraud on all fronts."
LifeLock (www.lifelock.com) was founded in 2005 by seasoned veterans of the banking, payment, credit and security industries. These individuals have set out to defend American citizens from the onslaught of identity theft at a time when personal information is increasingly compromised through low-tech fraud, security breaches and the Internet. The founders crafted a simple, proactive service that can help prevent identity theft that is offered to the public for just $10 per month or $110 per year. To date, more than 100,000 adults and children have already enrolled in the service.
LifeLock helps consumers to render their personal information useless to thieves, backing up its service with a million-dollar guarantee. Located in a secure facility in Tempe, Arizona, LifeLock is a private company registered with Dun & Bradstreet, Verisign, ScanAlert, HackerSafe, and the BBBOnline Reliability Program, and is a corporate sponsor of the National Crime Prevention Council. Recently LifeLock was named to the Red Herring 200, as one of the 200 most innovative and promising private ventures in the United States and Canada.
MyPublicInfo, Inc. was founded in Arlington, Virginia in 2004 and is the leading provider of consumer identity scoring and identity management services. MyPublicInfo sells the most comprehensive identity protection products available through www.IdentitySweep.com and www.MyPublicInfo.com, partner web sites, and other marketing channels.
MyPublicInfo was recently named one of the "100 Most Promising" technology companies for 2007 by the Red Herring company.
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