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According to consumer credit reports by Equifax and Experian, the average consumer now owes more than $4,200 in credit card debt, and the burden of credit card debt for some households accounts for up to 17 percent of their total income. The

A Michigan man has filed a lawsuit against the Roskam Baking Company for firing him after reviewing the results of a flawed background check, according to MLive.Leonardo Molina of Grand Rapids, Michigan claims he was hired to fill a full-time

Less information has been lost in recent years, but hackers are targeting smaller organizations, a recent report found.Verizon's 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report found that the combined caseload for compromised records shared between

The sensitive data of members of three different state agencies had been accessible to the public by a Texas comptroller for nearly a year, according to the Austin Business Journal.Data files from 1.2 million employees in the Teacher Retirement

Banking industry representatives are pushing back against proposed risk retention rules that seek to make standards stricter for lending firms.The representatives contend that the rules would constrict credit and make it more difficult for