by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 14, 2021 | Scam of the day
Your credit report is an important document that can affect not only your ability to get a loan, but even your ability to get a job, an apartment or insurance. Indications of identity theft often first turn up on your credit report where you can find out if someone...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 26, 2019 | Scam of the day
Another scam, about which I have written numerous times before, was in the news recently when Linda Longacre of Oklahoma became a victim of identity theft weeks after her death when a check written by an identity thief was deducted from her account. Not even the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 16, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have been telling you about credit freezes for children since last September when a new federal law went into effect that permits consumers to freeze and unfreeze their credit reports for free. You can now freeze and unfreeze your credit at each of the major credit...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 29, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Atrium Health, which operates 44 hospitals in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia suffered a data breach between September 22 and September 29, 2018 which has just been discovered. The data breach resulted in significant amount of personal information of 2.65...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 25, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
I initially reported to you in 2014 that the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was hacked by Chinese hackers who stole personal information of what we now know is 20 million federal employees, retirees and their family members. We later learned that the...