by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 14, 2024 | Scam of the day
The 40+ dating website Senior Dating has shut down after recently suffering a data breach on November 23rd. The compromised and stolen personal information of 765,517 of the apps users included biographies, birth dates, drinking habits, education levels, email...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 29, 2024 | Scam of the day
October 8th and 9th are Amazon Prime Day which is odd to say. Amazon really should change the name for the two 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 Prime...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 6, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the day for October 10, 2023 I told you that the genetic testing company 23andMe had suffered a data breach that compromised genetic and ancestry data of 6.9 million of its users and the apparent hackers had already offered for sale what they say is the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 5, 2024 | Scam of the day
LoanCare, a major, national home mortgage servicing company recently disclosed that it had suffered a data breach affecting 1.3 million of its customers. Sensitive information stolen included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and loan numbers. Having your...
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...
