by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 18, 2022 | 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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 21, 2022 | Scam of the day
Data breaches continue to a major problem for all of us. Regardless of how well you protect the security of your personal information on your own computers and devices, you are only as safe as the places that hold your information with the weakest security. Earlier...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 4, 2022 | Scam of the day
Electronics company Samsung recently announced that it had suffered a data breach in July that they discovered in August. As a result of the data breach personal information including the names of customers, their birth dates, demographic information and product...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 30, 2022 | Scam of the day
I first reported to you about a massive data breach at Uber in a Scam of the day in November of 2017. Unfortunately, the data breach had actually occurred in 2016 and Uber did not disclose that it had suffered the data breach until 2017. Personal information including...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 28, 2022 | Scam of the day
In the summer of 2021 I reported to you about a data breach at T-Mobile in which personal information of 54.6 million customers, former customers and prospective customers was stolen. The compromised information includes names, phone numbers, Social Security numbers...
