Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before. With the W2 variety, a citizen of the c-suite requests all the W2s from human resources or accounting–thereby collecting a rich file of personally identifiable information that can be used to commit tax-related fraud as well as all stripe of identity theft.

Scams 130

Scams Identity Theft Phishing Accountability 130

Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam. The criminals have discovered how many people don't understand investing in cryptocurrency and have turned Investment Scams into a new money factory. . #1 Personal Data Breach. Identity Theft.

Scams 98

Scams Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft Data breaches 98

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. How Did the Data Breach Happen? Identity theft. How and Why We Discovered the Breach. What’s Going On?

Data breaches 103

Data breaches Insurance Identity Theft Education 103

Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 9, 2021

This magnitude reminds of us of the 500 million people that were impacted in the data breach at Marriott. Oddly, Facebook initially dismissed the reports as irrelevant, citing that the data was leaked years ago so it didn’t matter now. What is a data breach?” What is data scraping?” spreadsheet).

Data breaches 80

Data breaches Passwords Identity Theft Password Management 80

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In mid-November 2018, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a Jared customer who found something curious after receiving a receipt via email for a pair of earrings he’d just purchased as a surprise gift for his girlfriend. . That would be a pretty convincing scam. Or just targeted phishing attacks.”

Retail 204

Retail Identity Theft Scams Media 204

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

At this time it is unclear for how long the data remained exposed online without protection. “The British Council takes its responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) very seriously. The Privacy and security of personal information is paramount.”

Identity Theft 90

Identity Theft Education Phishing Scams 90

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

. “ Comparitech partnered with security researcher Bob Diachenko to investigate the data exposure, which included sensitive personal and tax information. ” The Elasticsearch database was first indexed by search engines in May 2018, Diachenko discovered it on September 17, 2019, and on September 20, 2019 it was secured.

Identity Theft 77

Identity Theft Scams Advertising Risk 77