One of the first changes in 2020 due to COVID-19 was the delay in the regular income tax filing date. Soon after that, millions of out-of-work Americans began to receive enhanced unemployment benefits and special small business loans.Soon after that, cybercriminals...
The release of the 2020 ITRC Data Breach Report and launch of the ITRC’s data breach tracking tool supports the Data Privacy Day 2021 initiative to help build trust among consumers and promote transparency around data collection practices. SAN DIEGO, January 13, 2021-...
The IRS and Treasury Department began distributing stimulus payments the last week of 2020. Direct Deposits, paper checks and debit cards will be sent out to some Americans throughout January. No action is required by anyone to receive their stimulus...
A T-Mobile repeat data breach event resulted from unauthorized access to 200,000 customer accounts, including call records.It is the fourth time T-Mobile has sent a data breach notification since 2018. The T-Mobile data breach in December was the second one in 2020.An...
More stimulus payments are on the way. Scammers are aware, too, which means another round of stimulus payment-related scams. Remember, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will not text, email or...
Last week, FireEye, a cybersecurity provider, revealed their tools to detect and block sophisticated cyberattacks were stolen in a security breach. This week we learned attackers, believed to be affiliated with Russia’s state security...
In a new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) scam reported to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), criminals claim to be part of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program. They try to convince people on...
A Canon data breach resulted from a ransomware attack on the company by the Maze ransomware group. Canon is just one of many companies recently hit with a ransomware attack, a trend the Identity Theft Resource...
*Originally posted December 2015. Updated as of December 14, 2020. Facebook users have recently been receiving messages about winning a “Christmas bonus.” Most of the messages are scams. The messages come from cloned accounts of one of the user’s real Facebook...
The Armorblox threat research team has published an analysis of five targeted phishing campaigns that involve Google Workspace, including Google Forms, Google Docs, Google Site, and Google’s mobile platform for app...
The list for the most common passwords in 2020 is out, released by cybersecurity firm NordPass. The three most common passwords of 2020 are 12345, 123456789 and picture1. Weak passwords continue to be a security issue. According to Verizon,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns consumers that while a vaccine is closer to distribution, so are COVID-19 vaccine scams. The FDA fears misleading products could cause Americans to delay or stop appropriate medical...
By Identity Theft Resource Center CEO, Eva Velasquez & Synchrony CISO, Gleb Reznik The 2020 holiday season will certainly be one of the most unusual ones we have seen, thanks to the biggest holiday shopping trend – a dramatic shift in online transactions...
The Identity Theft Resource Center’s® 2021 Predictions show fundamental shifts in how identity crimes are committed, what cybercriminals want, and the resources available to help victims SAN...
Vertafore, a Denver based insurance tech company, discovered three files containing driver-related information were posted to an unsecured online storage service. The files included data from before February 2019 on nearly 28 million Texas drivers.The files included...
The 2020 COVID-19 holiday season is upon us. This year, consumers should be on the lookout for job scams, giving scams, grandparent scams and online shopping scams, to name a few. If anyone comes across an unknown...
Scammers are looking to take advantage of consumers that need money due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with a credit line scam. The scam tries to trick consumers with fake phone calls that look like they are from legitimate banks...
The software provider behind some of the largest travel websites, Prestige Software, maintained a cloud database without a password. The unsecured database led to approximately 10 million accounts being available to view online to anyone...
Domain name scams are making the rounds in hopes of triggering a response from a company’s employees out of fear. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) recently received a domain name scam claiming a registrar found the main body of domain...
Timberline Billing Service recently determined a supposed ransomware attack led to encrypted files and information removed from their network. So far, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has tracked 14 impacted schools. A database exposure...
Approximately 56 percent of California voters passed The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The law will be the toughest privacy law in the U.S. once it goes into effect in 2023.California residents will have more control over what happens to their personal...