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. | 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 26, 2019 | Scam of the day
Time and time again, the way in which major online attacks on government agencies, companies and all of us as individuals begins is through a spear phishing email. Phishing emails are emails that are sent to lure you into providing information or clicking on links in...
by admin | Apr 20, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
DocuSign is a company that provides technology for the transmission of contracts and other documents with features for electronic signatures. The company is used by many companies. Recently I received a phishing email, reproduced below that purported to be from an...