by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 6, 2024 | Scam of the day
Ryan Testa pleaded guilty in Connecticut recently to a variety of criminal charges related to a series of motor vehicle thefts accomplished through identity theft. Testa used stolen identities to apply for loans at motor vehicle dealerships in Connecticut,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 2, 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. | Feb 28, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently Mortgage and Loan company LoanDepot disclosed that it had suffered a massive data breach in which the names, dates of birth, email and postal addresses, financial account numbers, phone numbers and, most disturbing, Social Security numbers of 16.6 million of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 16, 2024 | Scam of the day
As I first reported to you in 2014, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was hacked by Chinese hackers who stole personal information of more than 21 million present and former federal employees as well as non-employees whose information was gathered by...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 16, 2023 | Scam of the day
The federal government has warned business leaders to be ready for inevitable cyberattacks during the Christmas and New Year period. Many times in recent years, major cyberattacks and data breaches occurred over the holidays when businesses, government agencies and...
