by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 9, 2023 | Scam of the day
The genetic testing company 23andMe has suffered a data breach that compromised a million data points of Ashkenazi Jews including, if accurate, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and the apparent hackers are already offering for sale what they say is the stolen information...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 5, 2023 | Scam of the day
Earlier this week, the University of Rochester disclosed that it had suffered a major data breach in which personal information on all of its students, faculty and staff was stolen. The personal information stolen was quite extensive and included Social Security...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 10, 2023 | Scam of the day
NextGen healthcare, an electronic health record software company recently notified a million patients that their personal data had been stolen in a major data breach that apparently occurred between March 29th and April 14th of this year.. This particular data breach...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 17, 2023 | Scam of the day
Passwords are the key to accessing a myriad of your accounts, from Amazon to your bank to any company with which you do business online. Password security is obviously critically important, however, unfortunately, regardless of how protective you are as to the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 4, 2023 | Scam of the day
The headline of this Scam of the day may be a bit confusing because dual factor authentication is not itself a scam, but rather a tool to avoid being scammed. It is not unusual for passwords to be compromised, particularly if you use the same password for all of your...
