by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 29, 2025 | Scam of the day
Data breaches are a common occurence 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. Credit reporting agency TransUnion is the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 9, 2025 | Scam of the day
Danish jewelry chain Pandora which has 2,700 locations worldwide announced recently that it had suffered a data breach in which personal information of approximately 30,000 people was compromised. The compromised information included names, email addresses, phone...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 26, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have been writing a lot recently about data breaches which is not really surprising since last year alone there were 9,478 publicly disclosed data breaches exposing over more than 35.9 billion records globally and 2025 appears to be on its way to a record number of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 4, 2024 | Scam of the day
For years identity thieves and scammers would use skimmers installed at ATMs and on card processing equipment such as at gas pumps (where this is still a problem) and at retail checkouts to steal the debit or credit card information from the magnetic strip on the card...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 28, 2022 | Scam of the day
A hacker who uses the name Ryushi claims to have hacked into Twitter through a now-patched API vulnerability and is offering the information for sale for $200,000 on the Dark Web to other cybercriminals who could use the information to target the Twitter users for...
