by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 19, 2025 | Scam of the day
Data breaches are a common occurrence which is disturbing because they can readily lead to your identity being stolen or you becoming a victim of a scam as the hackers leverage the data they steal to lure you into a scam. Prosper Marketplace, Inc is a peer to peer...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 21, 2025 | Scam of the day
When you hear the name Aflac, you probably like me hear the quacking duck from their commercials. Unfortunately, however the recently announced data breach at Aflac is no quacking matter. Aflac disclosed on June 20th that it had suffered a data breach that may have...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 14, 2025 | Scam of the day
Data breaches are all too common and according to a 2023 report by IBM, healthcare companies account for approximately 27% of all data breaches. An analysis of the health care breach data base maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services done by Security...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 29, 2024 | Scam of the day
In February of 2017 I first told you that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had obtained a temporary restraining order against Credit Bureau Center LLC, Michael Brown, Danny Pierce and Andrew Lloyd as a part of its legal action against them on charges that they...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 31, 2024 | Scam of the day
Data breaches are all too common and according to a 2023 report by IBM healthcare companies account for approximately 27% of all data breaches. Healthcare companies are targeted for a number of reasons including the general lack of security of many healthcare...
