Some consumers have yet to receive their stimulus check, leaving many wondering why. The Identity Theft Resource Center has seen a sharp increase in “stolen stimulus check” cases. However, not everyone who believes they had their stimulus check stolen finds that...
Classes being moved to virtual and students being off of campus is not stopping scammers from targeting students. According to the Federal Trade Commission, a recent college student stimulus check scam claims to be from universities’ financial departments. However,...
Since 2005, the Identity Theft Resource Center has compiled publicly-reported U.S. data breaches as part of our data breach tracking efforts. While our 2019 Data Breach Report revealed an annual 17 percent increase in data breaches compared to 2018, there has since...
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...
Unemployment identity theft, also known as unemployment fraud, continues to skyrocket across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic; particularly hard-hit is Washington state. A possible Nigerian fraud ring could be to blame for many of the cases involved in...
This blog will be updated as more information becomes available Reports of accidental exposures and data leaks from five different states’ unemployment websites have some consumers concerned. Illinois, Arkansas, Colorado, Ohio and, most recently, Florida have all...
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...
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....
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...
Password security has been a hot topic for a long time. That is because passwords stand as the most commonly used tool to keep unauthorized individuals out of accounts and files. However, as technology changes and hackers adapt their methods to keep up, what was once...
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...
A long-time scam tactic has made a comeback amid the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 catfishing scams are out in full force in an attempt to play on people’s emotions and steal their personally identifiable information to commit fraud. Who Is It Targeting: Social media...
A recent CAM4 data exposure left nearly 11 billion records exposed. A team of researchers uncovered the leak by CAM4, an adult streaming website. According to komando.com, it is estimated that just over 6.5 million of those records were from users in the U.S. The...
Multi-billion dollar education tech company Chegg—which specializes in digital and print textbook rentals, as well as online homework help solutions—announced it suffered another data breach. This Chegg data breach impacted approximately 700 of its employees. It...
Nearly 25,000 public health organization employees had their email addresses and passwords exposed after they were dumped online. According to the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. – based hacker activist is the likely source of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...
Video game giant Nintendo announced their investigation of a data breach after users began reporting suspicious activity. As part of the Nintendo data breach investigation, the company found that more than 160,000 accounts may have been compromised by unauthorized...
In what has become a common occurrence, another company—this time a credit card payment processing start-up —has suffered an accidental overexposure. A Paay data exposure left credit card details and transactions exposed for anyone to see. Accidental overexposures...
Canadian toymaker Ganz, owner and developer of the popular Webkinz platform for children, recently announced that a malicious, unauthorized actor had accessed 23 million usernames and passwords as part of the Webkinz data breach. The credentials accessed were the...
More than 7,000 businesses applying for emergency loans may have had their personal information exposed by a Small Business Administration (SBA) data exposure. The SBA’s failure to secure the data, which was discovered on March 25, was due to a programming error in...
Scammers are looking to scare people into falling for a COVID-19 contamination scam that contains a link that is designed to steal personal information. Scammers are sending potential victims a text message informing them that someone they know tested positive...
With news of the economic hardship surrounding the containment of COVID-19, scammers are out in full force trying to get consumers to fall for CashApp scams by clicking on fraudulent and malicious links that could steal people’s money and identity. Who Is It...