September 8, 2017 by Seena Gressin, Attorney, Division of Consumer & Business Education, FTC If you have a credit report, there’s a good chance that you’re one of the 143 million American consumers whose sensitive personal information was exposed in a data breach...
Security Tips to Remember It is a best practice to never give out personal information in response to an unsolicited call or email. There are fraudsters who will use our public information to try to attain personal information from you. Unless you initiate the contact...
Each year, consumers and businesses fall victim to all kinds of cybercrimes ranging from ID theft to skimming to computer hacking. The latest scam used by criminals is referred to as “number spoofing”. This is illegal. The criminal clones a phone number and makes...
Online banking has become more or less ubiquitous among consumers nationwide in recent years, despite some trepidation early on that security would be an ongoing concern. However, even though millions of Americans may now use these services daily, there are...
Many small business owners across the country may have seen the hacking attacks in the last few years that exposed payment data and other sensitive information supposed to be protected by major organizations. Hospitals, grocery stores, health insurers, big box...
Many small business owners across the country may think that a data breach can be safely filed under "Things that will never happen to my company." However, studies routinely show that a large and growing number of such enterprises are hit with these...
