by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 13, 2026 | Scam of the day
It was two weeks ago that I first told you about the data breach at Panera Bread. It was done by the English speaking hacking group ShinyHunters, who successfully stole personal information including customer names, email addresses, phone numbers home addresses and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 6, 2025 | Scam of the day
ParkMobile the popular mobile and web parking payment platform suffered a data breach in 2021 resulting in personal information of 22 million of its users being compromised and then leaked on a Dark Web hacking forum making the information available to anyone...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 30, 2025 | Scam of the day
October 7th through 8th are Amazon Prime Day which is odd to say. Amazon really should change the name for the four day event to Amazon Prime Days. Amazon Prime Day is a global promotion of Amazon featuring sales on a variety of items available solely to Amazon...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 19, 2025 | Scam of the day
Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure you into either clicking on links contained within the email which download malware or providing personal information that will be used to make you a victim of identity theft, are nothing new. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2025 | Scam of the day
I have often written about imporster scams where scammers pose as legitimate companies or government agencies that you know and trust in an effort to lure you into providing personal information or making a payment under some pretext. Now, in an unusual twist on the...
