by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 22, 2021 | Scam of the day
We learned a few days ago that the grocery and pharmacy chain Kroger had suffered a data breach of which it first became aware on January 23rd, but did not notify its customers of the breach until a few days ago. In a statement released on February 19th, Kroger...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 2, 2021 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has designated February 1-5th as Identity Theft Awareness Week. The Coronavirus pandemic has contributed to a dramatic increase in identity theft with the the FTC reporting that it received approximately 1.4 million complaints of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 8, 2020 | Scam of the day
Although the actual crime occurred years ago, the news recently reported that actor Will Smith became a victim of identity theft when Carlos Lomax, using Smith’s Social Security number and name was able to open 14 credit accounts in Smith’s name and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 9, 2020 | Scam of the day
This is the beginning of a school year unlike any other, but one thing that remains the same is the risk of school age children becoming victims of identity theft. Identity thieves will steal the identity of a child and then run up large debts using the credit of the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 14, 2020 | Scam of the day
Personal information including birth date, gender, website activity, cell phone number, username, email address and hashed passwords of 3.5 million users of the dating site MobiFriends have recently been discovered to have been made available to cybercriminals on the...
