The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is seeing a rise in job scams asking you to verify your identity so criminals can steal your personal information and credentials.Right now, the ITRC sees a rise in a specific type of employment scam where criminals pose as...
The one-year anniversary of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and CCPA enforcement has come. According to the California Attorney General (AG), 75 percent of complaints were resolved within 30 days. The other 25 percent are still within the 30-day grace...
Advanced child tax credit payments are being sent by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as part of the American Rescue Plan. However, scammers may try to take advantage of the funds with child tax credit scams.The IRS will not call, text, email or message you about a...
SentiLink talks with the ITRC in the newest Fraudian Slip podcast about the unprecedented levels of identity fraud as people have applied for government benefits during COVID-19 For the first time since the reports of unemployment identity...
If you are looking to sell anything online, you should be aware of the Google Voice scam. Scammers are posing as interested buyers on online marketplaces and are trying to steal your personal information to create a fake Google Voice account in your name.The criminals...
Did you recently receive a phone call claiming to be from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)? Homeland Security phone scams are making the rounds, leaving some people in a panic.In the Homeland Security scam phone calls, criminals are impersonating both...
Business email compromise (BEC) scams are impacting organizations across the U.S. The latest scam, which the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) continues to see, is a business invoice phishing email that asks employees to download a fake business invoice.The...
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) First Half 2021 Data Breach Analysis, data compromises are up 38 percent over the first quarter of 2021. If this trend from the data breach statistics continues, 2021 will set an all-time high for data...
The number of individuals impacted by a data compromise is down 20 percent quarter-over-quarter SAN DIEGO, July 8, 2021 – Today, the Identity Theft Resource Center® (ITRC), a nationally recognized nonprofit organization established to...
Accepting Cookies on New Websites You Visit? Here’s What to Consider Most people in the U.S. have visited a website and accepted cookies. Cookie preferences can be traced directly to the European Union’s three-year-old privacy law, the General Data Protection...
Businesses are re-hiring team members after COVID-19 lockdowns. However, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is also seeing a rise in online job scams. The ITRC has seen an eight-time increase in reports over the last six months. Job scams are not uncommon....
If you have a Venmo account, you may have been asked recently to re-verify your identity on Venmo. The payment app asks users to do so as part of compliance with government regulations. Anyone who does not take part in the identity verification process will not...
On June 28, 2021, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) discovered a particular form of a phishing attack (also known as a brand spoofing attack) imitating our non-profit organization. The spoofed email, which was determined to be an identity monitoring services...
According to a new study, 74 percent of the participants were not aware of the breaches where there was documented evidence their information was compromised. While the study also found that most victims blamed...
While your Social Security number (SSN) is still a valuable piece of information to identity thieves, it is not as valuable as login credentials. According to Privacy Affair’s Dark Web Price Index, the current cost of...
LexisNexis talks with the ITRC in the newest Fraudian Slip podcast about the impact of identity fraud in the government & business sectors and how you can prevent identity fraud This month’s Fraudian Slip podcast talks about the steady...
A Scripps Health cyberattack led to a pause in the healthcare provider’s medical services for weeks and the exposure of personal and financial information for more...
Multiple states including California, Florida, Colorado and more, are offering lottery & sweepstakes incentive programs for COVID-19 vaccine recipients but scammers are taking advantage of the eager consumers. Scammers...
Amazon recently connected to its new network, “Sidewalk,” leaving some people wondering how to opt-out of Amazon Sidewalk. It takes a little piece of people’s network bandwidth, who have either an Amazon Echo or a Ring doorbell connected to their Wi-Fi, and shares it...
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), software that allows two different applications to talk to each other and work together, is becoming more popular. Its use is up 61 percent in 2020 over 2019. However, so are API attacks – a 211 percent rise in 2020.API flaws...
E-signature scams are rising as remote workers rely more on services like DocuSign, HelloSign and other similar services. Recently, some employees at the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) received phishing emails that...