by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 3, 2023 | Scam of the day
It was less than a month ago that I told you that the accounting firm Ernst & Young disclosed that it had suffered a data breach affecting 30,210 customers of Bank of America for whom Ernst & Young had been doing accounting. The personal information stolen...
by admin | Mar 26, 2018 | Scam of the day
The City of San Diego has filed a lawsuit against Experian, one of the the three major credit reporting agencies alleging that it never alerted consumers of a data breach affecting 250,000 people from San Diego in violation of California law. The data breach, about...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 24, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A few days ago the University of Maryland disclosed that personal information of more than 300,000 students, faculty and other university employees connected with the university since 1998 was stolen by computer hackers. In a statement disclosing the data theft, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 9, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
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...
