by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 20, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A couple of days ago I told you about the massive data breach at Community Health Systems a hospital chain with hospitals in 29 states. This data breach, which was done by Chinese hackers resulted in personal data on 4.5 million patients of Community Health Systems...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 20, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although it may seem as if this scam only began in earnest with the invention of email, in fact, the scam itself is just a variation of a scam that is more than four hundred years old when it was called the Spanish Prisoner Con. At that time a letter was sent to the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 18, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Community Health Systems, Inc. a major hospital group company with 206 hospitals in 29 states disclosed that it had suffered a major data breach in which the names, addresses, birth dates, Telephone...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 18, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although I have been warning you about this particular scam for a long time, most recently in my Scam of the Day for March 1, 2014, another warning is warranted in the light of the IRS and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration disclosing that so far in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 16, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The Supermarket chain Supervalu Inc. has disclosed that it has joined the growing list of major companies suffering a major data breach. Although the breach apparently occurred between June 22nd and July 17th, it was only disclosed a few days ago. Supervalu operates...
