Educational Credit Management Corp (“ECMC“), a large guarantor of federal student loans, recently reported the theft of stored confidential information, allegedly by an employee who is now in custody. This information included names, Social Security Numbers, date of birth and address of people who have student loans.

In my spam filter this morning were three emails from “service@irs-usa.com” with the subject “Notice From the Department of Treasury.” They were all viruses. Please note first that all emails from the federal government will almost always use .gov and not .com as the top-level domain name. In addition, the Internal Revenue Service will NEVER [...]