by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 27, 2025 | Scam of the day
An analysis of the health care breach data base maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services done by Security Week indicated that in 2024 there were 720 data breaches affecting as many as 186 million people. And just this week we learned of a data breach...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
Columbia University recently disclosed that it had suffered a data breach in May that was discovered in June, but not disclosed until last week. According to public filings 868,969 people had their personal information compromised. The compromised information...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 8, 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. | Mar 31, 2024 | Scam of the day
A year ago I told you that AT&T notified nine million of its customers that some of their personal information was exposed when a marketing partner of AT&T was hacked. A few days ago I told you that names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and Social...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 16, 2024 | Scam of the day
As I first reported to you in 2014, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was hacked by Chinese hackers who stole personal information of more than 21 million present and former federal employees as well as non-employees whose information was gathered by...
