by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 2, 2023 | Scam of the day
TMX Finance and its subsidiary companies TitleMax, TitleBucks and InstaLoan recently notified 4,822,580 of its customers that large amounts of their personal information was exposed in a data breach that lasted from February 3rd to February 14th. This particular data...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 11, 2023 | Scam of the day
AT&T recently notified nine million of its customers that some of their personal information was exposed when a marketing partner of AT&T was hacked in January. While the data breach did not include credit card information, Social Security numbers or account...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 25, 2023 | Scam of the day
The headline of today’s Scam of the day is very precisely worded. FanDuel, the online sports gambling site did not suffer a data breach, however, its customers did. This is because a data breach at Mail Chimp, an email marketing company used by FanDuel to send...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 11, 2022 | Scam of the day
July 12th is the beginning of Amazon Prime Day. I say the beginning because Amazon Prime Day actually extends from July 12th through July 13th. 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. | Feb 14, 2022 | Scam of the day
Social media is incredibly popular and, as I have warned you many times, anything popular with the public will always be popular with scammers and so it was not surprising when a recent report of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicated that in 2021 scammers...
