by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 9, 2022 | Scam of the day
Data breaches have become a part of every day life and their numbers continue to increase. In the first three months of 2022 alone there were 404 major data breaches. The latest major data breach involves Shields Health Care Group which provides imaging and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 3, 2022 | Scam of the day
As was made abundantly clear by 2017’s massive Equifax data breach which affected 148 million people and was perpetrated by hackers exploiting a vulnerability in Apache software for which Apache had already issued a security update, but Equifax failed to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 6, 2022 | Scam of the day
I have been reporting to you about the about the avoidable Equifax data breach in which personal data on more than 147 million people was stolen and legal actions related to the data breach since 2017 when the data breach occurred. The personal information compromised...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 21, 2022 | Scam of the day
As was made abundantly clear by 2017’s massive Equifax data breach which affected 148 million people and was perpetrated by hackers exploiting a vulnerability in Apache software for which Apache had already issued a security update, but Equifax failed to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 5, 2021 | Scam of the day
Recently I received the following email that appeared to come from a friend of mine. I have crossed out the email address and name of my friend from the email: “I’m sorry for any inconvenience this will cost you. I got bad news this morning that I lost a...