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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 15, 2023 | Scam of the day
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) recently notified hundreds of thousands of California retirees that their personal information was compromised in a major data...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 10, 2023 | Scam of the day
HCA Healthcare, which operates 180 hospitals and healthcare facilities has disclosed that it has suffered a massive data breach in which personal information including names, email addresses and phone numbers of eleven million of its patients was stolen and recently...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 18, 2023 | Scam of the day
When I first started Scamicide more than ten years and more than 4,000 Scams of the day ago, I wondered if I would run out of scams and identity theft schemes to discuss, but I am totally convinced that unfortunately there is no end to scams and while many scams are...
