by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 17, 2024 | Scam of the day
Fashion retailer Hot Topic has suffered a massive data breach affecting 57 million of its customers. Among the data stolen was email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, purchases, birth dates and partial credit card data, all of which can be used by scammers...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 25, 2024 | Scam of the day
Data breaches have become an all-too-common feature of life today and they pose a significant threat to all of us because regardless of how careful we are at protecting our personal data, we are only as secure as the companies and governmental agencies that hold our...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 28, 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. Now names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 70 million...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 6, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for October 10, 2023 I told you that the genetic testing company 23andMe had suffered a data breach that compromised genetic and ancestry data of 6.9 million of its users and the apparent hackers had already offered for sale what they say is the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 9, 2023 | Scam of the day
The genetic testing company 23andMe has suffered a data breach that compromised a million data points of Ashkenazi Jews including, if accurate, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and the apparent hackers are already offering for sale what they say is the stolen information...
