The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. Compromising that could make other unrelated accounts vulnerable. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) hackers like Conti, Hive and LockBit narrowing their focus from larger healthcare systems to smaller hospitals and specialty clinics, it is becoming easier than ever to retrieve the data and use it for launching various fraud and identity theft schemes.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Does this phishing attack constitute a possible identity theft? Social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google+ are commonly exploited to access user accounts. Once an account is compromised, hackers may attempt to impersonate me online or send emails pretending to come from trusted contacts. Happy data mining!).

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

American consumers lost $56 billion to identity theft last year with an average of 49 million consumer victims, according to a CNBC News report. The 2021 Identity Fraud Study by Javelin Strategy & Research reports the identity fraud resulted from stolen personally identifiable information (PII) and data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

What’s more, Hodson observed, the email addresses and phone numbers in the leak can easily be leveraged for email or phone scams, spam campaigns, and identity theft. “Using email addresses provided in the records, hackers may attempt to access users’ accounts using various combinations of common password characters.”

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Cisco Security

JUNE 30, 2022

After two years of virtual engagements, in-person events like our CISO Forum and Cisco Live as well as the industry’s RSA Conference underscore the power of face-to-face interactions. In fact, 86 percent of global consumers were victims of identity theft, credit/debit card fraud, or a data breach in 2020.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

More threats were detected on iOS than Android devices; 68% of Australian CISOs expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year. 68% of Australian CISOs confessed that they expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year, compared to the rest of the globe.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

.” “It would be possible, on detailed examination of video, to compromise elements of operational security,” agreed Mike Hamilton, co-founder and chief information security officer of CI Security and former Seattle CISO. That type of information can be extremely valuable for things like identity theft.”.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

For instance, Winick cited a 2017 New York Post article that suggested credit rating company Equifax had blamed its software vendor for a major breach, “thus violating another crisis communications commandment of ‘Be accountable.’” Sometimes, however, a business offers very little in the way of comfort, helpful information or restitution.

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