by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 16, 2020 | Scam of the day
Tilman Fertitta, the billionaire owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets recently became a victim of identity theft when someone obtained his name, Social Security number and date of birth through the Dark Web, that part of the Internet where criminals buy and sell...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 14, 2020 | Scam of the day
Recently I received the following email: “Dear Steve, How are you ? I need a Favor from you. I’ll need to get an Ebay gift card for my Niece, it’s her birthday today and i totally forgot i can’t do this now because I’m currently on a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 7, 2020 | Scam of the day
Five days ago in a required filing to the California Attorney General, clothing company J. Crew revealed that it had suffered a data breach last April in which personal information of an undisclosed number of its customers was taken. The stolen customer online...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
Recently personal information of 10,683,188 people gathered in a data breach of MGM Resorts hotels turned up on Dark Web websites where criminals buy and sell stolen data. The data included full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and dates of birth...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 22, 2019 | Scam of the day
Macy’s has announced that its macys.com website was hacked for one week in October resulting in a data breach in which customers’ names, addresses, credit card numbers and debit card numbers were stolen leaving them in significant danger of identity...
