Identity theft is the crime of stealing somebody’s personal information and using it to assume their identity to commit fraud. It can happen in many ways, but it is almost always massively devastating for the victims. It’s not all doom and gloom, however. There are...
T-Mobile has launched an investigation into the data breach that has resulted in the personal information of millions of its customers being posted for sale online. How can you protect yourself?...
One common mistake among users is they constantly use the same password for all their accounts. A Google survey found that at least 65% of people reuse passwords across multiple, if not all, sites! So, if one of their account gets leaked, their other accounts may also...
According to Market Data Forecast, the North American healthcare market was worth $3.13 billion in 2020 and is set to reach $11.4 Billion by 2025. This makes the healthcare industry a very lucrative target for threat actors. Are you one of the victims?...
The leaked data includes customers’ first and last names, email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and information relating to transactions for inquired, leased, purchased vehicles, driving license number, date of birth, social security number, tax identification number, and account or loan number....
Alibaba’s Chinese online retail store, Taobao, has suffered a data breach exposing 1.1 billion pieces of customer data including user IDs and mobile phone numbers. The information was collected using a web crawler deployed to Taobao’s site in November 2019. Reports say that no encrypted...
McDonald’s was hit by a data breach that exposes customers’ data in countries like South Korea and Taiwan. Why should you care?...
he COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased activity from cybercriminals, targeting the healthcare sector and exposing almost 12 billion protected health information (PHI). The confirmed data breaches in the healthcare industry increased by 58% in 2020. Threat actors took advantage of the national crisis and...
ParkMobile already issued a security notification regarding this incident. The message stated that one of their services was hacked and unauthorized people gained access to their customers’ data. If you’re a ParkMobile user, what should you be concerned?...
Just upon the heels of the Facebook Data Breach comes a recent report regarding scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online on a popular hacker forum. It was mentioned that 2 million of these records were leaked as samples that contained professional-identifying...