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...
by admin | Mar 25, 2018 | Scam of the day
A few days ago the travel website Orbitz announced that personal information of 880,000 of its customers who used Orbitz between January of 2016 and December of 2017 was hacked. The stolen information includes names, addresses, phone numbers dates of birth, gender and...
by admin | Oct 19, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In the Scam of the Day for October 8th, I reported to you about the recent announcement that Equifax, the company responsible through its own negligence for 145 million Americans becoming in serious danger of identity theft for the rest of their lives, was awarded a...
by admin | Apr 22, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
We all know that identity theft is a huge problem, but do identity theft protection services really help protect you? That was the subject of a recent GAO study as well as my column from today’s edition of USA Today....
