by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 7, 2020 | Scam of the day
I first reported to you about the huge data breach at Anthem, a major health care company in February of 2015 when it was initially discovered. The data breach affected 78.8 million patients and employees. The data stolen included birth dates, Social Security...
by admin | Aug 27, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Last week the FBI arrested Chinese national Yu Pingan in Los Angeles where he came to attend a technology conference. Yu was charged with distributing and using malware including the rarely used Sakula malware program used in the massive data breach against the...
by admin | Jul 16, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
State sponsored hacking from countries such as China, North Korea and Russia pose a threat to everyone, but Google, which has for years been monitoring hacking attempts by foreign governments, is notifying Gmail customers when Google has reason to believe that their...
by admin | Aug 14, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
One of my mottoes regarding data breaches is that things are not as bad as you think — they are far worse and that motto is unfortunately turning out to be quite accurate in regard to the recent data breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by Chinese...
by admin | Jun 5, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is the federal agency that deals with federal security clearances and federal employee records and as such contains sensitive personal information of millions of Americans who work for or have worked in the past for the federal...
