by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 10, 2025 | Scam of the day
A credit freeze is, as the name implies, a freezing of your credit report at your request whereby no one can have access to your credit report even if they have your Social Security number and other personal information about you. You control access to the credit...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 9, 2025 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for June 14, 2023 I told you that health insurance company Harvard Pilgrim disclosed that it had suffered a major data breach and ransomware attack affecting more than 2.5 million people. This particular data breach is quite serious because...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 30, 2025 | Scam of the day
It seems like every week I am reporting to you about another major data breach. This week the victim is LexisNexis Risk Solutions which is a data broker that gathers consumers’ personal data and provides it to its corporate clients for purposes of risk...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 24, 2025 | Scam of the day
Last month I told you that Verizon had issued its annual data breach report which appears to exemplify my motto that “things aren’t as bad as you think, they are far worse.” Regardless of how diligent you are in protecting your personal information...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 23, 2025 | Scam of the day
I first told you about the massive data breach at PowerSchool a major education technology software company used by 16,000 educational institutions with 50 million students in January. The hacker claimed to have harvested sensitive personal information of 62.4...
