by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 9, 2022 | Scam of the day
Data breaches have become a part of every day life and their numbers continue to increase. In the first three months of 2022 alone there were 404 major data breaches. The latest major data breach involves Shields Health Care Group which provides imaging and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 20, 2022 | Scam of the day
Last summer I reported to you about a data breach at T-Mobile in which personal information of 54.6 million customers, former customers and prospective customers was stolen. The compromised information includes names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 17, 2022 | Scam of the day
Recently a Scamicide reader told me that she had received an email from a friend of hers asking for a favor. Her friend needed the Scamicide reader to send a gift card to someone because her friend was unable to do so and needed to send the gift card right away. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 4, 2022 | Scam of the day
Broward Health, a network of more than thirty health care facilities has just disclosed that it suffered a massive data breach in which sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers, patient medial history and bank account information of more than...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 22, 2021 | Scam of the day
Recently, the federal government issued a warning to business leaders to be ready for inevitable cyberattacks during the Christmas and New Year period. Many times in the recent years, major cyberattacks and data breaches occurred over the holidays when businesses,...
