Data breach notices become more opaque, leaving consumers in the dark
Of the 1,802 breaches the Identity Theft Resource Center tracked in 2022, 66% of notices lacked details about the attack and victims.
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(Getty Images) Government Privacy legislation might provide a powerful guard against online identity fraud
It might pose a new hurdle for cybercriminals looking to swipe personal information.
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Metro train travelers using smartphone 15 August 2012 (Photo by Francis Dean / Dean Pictures) (Photo by Francis Dean/Corbis via Getty Images) Financial Cybercrime is hitting communities of color at higher rates, study finds
“Everyone else has a better chance at not being financially hit, everyone else has a better chance of skirting by kind of unscathed.”
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(Getty Images) Government ID.me CEO backtracks on claims company doesn’t use powerful facial recognition tech
The company had said it didn’t use 1:many facial recognition.
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(Getty Images) Technology New York man sentenced to 3 years for stealing students’ nude photos after hacking their accounts
The hacker will pay $35,430 to SUNY-Plattsburg for hacking student emails.
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Getty Images Financial Do credit monitoring and ID protection services do enough for breach victims?
“We need to rethink how consumer data is stewarded,” one customer advocate said.
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A T-Mobile retail store at the Pentagon Row shopping district in August 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Financial Personal data from T-Mobile breach still spreading on dark web, state governments warn
Attorneys general from New York, California and multiple other states issued alerts to consumers about the August 2021 T-Mobile incident.
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(Stock /Getty Images) Privacy Experian tool exposed partial Social Security numbers, putting customers at risk
The problem with using Social Security numbers to authenticate consumers goes much deeper than Experian, experts say.
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(Getty Images) Financial FBI takes down dark web marketplace for U.S. citizen personal data
The crime operation may have been connected to Joker’s Stash.
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The American Airlines logo is seen at John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) on May 13, 2020 in Queens, New York. (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images) Privacy American Airlines discloses data breach
The news follows a White House meeting with airline and other aviation executives to discuss the cybersecurity threat facing the industry.