Mystery shopping has been around for a long time. Mystery shoppers help businesses, retailers and restaurants get information on the quality of their stores in exchange for money. In the past, scammers have found ways to turn the service into a mystery shopper scam, also known as a secret shopper scam. These scams are resurfacing […]
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Malicious actors have a number of different approaches when trying to breach a company’s website or security defenses. In a recently announced data breach, the socially conscious sock donation company Bombas alerted its customers to a formjacking attack that appears to have compromised customers’ names, addresses, and payment card information. This is the second Bombas data breach reported, following a separate incident
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Since 2005, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has built one of the most comprehensive repositories of publicly reported data breach information in the U.S. that is updated daily. In the last 15 years, the ITRC has tracked over 10,000 breaches. Data breaches target different companies and sectors using a variety of attack vectors (the
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In a story that seems to start in 2014, blogging platform LiveJournal appears to have suffered a data breach. The LiveJournal data breach—whose database of users’ names, email addresses and plain-text passwords was supposedly sold and traded on the Dark Web many times over the past six years—has been speculated about by several different entities.
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This post will be updated as more information becomes available Contact tracing scams have begun to pick up steam with the evolving technology coming closer to becoming a reality. Some of those scams include hackers and fraudsters posing as contact tracers – both online and in person – trying to steal personally identifiable information (PII),
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This blog will be updated as more information becomes available Reports of accidental exposures and data leaks from six different states’ unemployment websites have some consumers concerned. Illinois, Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio, Florida, and most recently, Kentucky have all suffered recent unemployment department data exposures due to their quick response in setting up convenient, DIY websites
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Fourteen million Key Ring customers, mostly across North America, may have had their personally identifiable information exposed in a Key Ring data leak that affected the company’s Amazon S3 web storage buckets. The buckets can hold vast databases of information. However, they are not configured as fully secured by default when they are created. Rather,
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From groceries and household goods to medicine and clothes, the coronavirus pandemic has forced people to do a fair bit of their shopping online. According to data from ACI Worldwide, in March 2020, online retail shopping saw a rise in sales as high 74 percent year over year. While online shopping is playing an important
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, people are not traveling much – if at all. As a result, people could be more susceptible to travel loyalty account takeover (accounts that may include large amounts of personally identifiable information like driver’s license and passport numbers). They could also be more vulnerable to attacks because of past breaches and
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