by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 12, 2026 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for May 9, 2026 I told you about the data breach at the educational technology company Instructure which makes the hugely popular learning management system Canvas. Canvas is used by school districts and universities around the world. As many...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 8, 2026 | Scam of the day
Educational technology company Instructure which developed the hugely popular learning management system Canvas which is used by school districts and universities around the world has confirmed that it suffered a data breach earlier this month in which as many as 275...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 5, 2026 | Scam of the day
Recently, bakery owner Susan Limb of Maryland was disturbed when she received what appeared to be a call from her bank informing her that multiple fraudulent withdrawals had been made from her business account and that immediate action needed to be taken in order to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 28, 2026 | Scam of the day
ADT, the country’s largest home security company in the United States became aware on April 20th that it had suffered a data breach which, according to Have I Been Pwned, a terrific website that tracks data breaches, resulted in person information of 5.5...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 23, 2026 | Scam of the day
Whatever is popular with the public is popular with scammers which is why it is not surprising that scammers are sending out text messages that appear to come from Amazon informing their targeted victims that there is a recall of a product that the targeted victim...
