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Half of Americans Experienced Identity Theft During COVID-19 Pandemic, New Study Shows

16

Mar

2021

A new report uncovers a striking pervasiveness of identity theft perpetrated against U.S. consumers where half of respondents surveyed experienced such an occurrence during the pandemic. Developed by Aite Group and underwritten by GIACT, the study found that 47% of U.S. consumers experienced identity theft between 2019 and 2020. And over the past two years, […]

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Finland Drafting New Legislation Following Cyber-Attack on Psychotherapy Center

13

Nov

2020

The government of Finland is responding to a cybersecurity incident disclosed in October that left up to 40,000 Finns at risk of identity theft, fraud and extortion. The widely reported cyber-attack on psychotherapy center Vastaamo last month has convinced Finnish officials to usher in new legislation to “allow citizens to change their personal identity codes […]

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Hackers breach Quora to steal 100 million user accounts – if you were logged out, change your password now!

04

Dec

2018

Question-and-answer website Quora has issued an urgent warning to 100 million of its users, notifying them that hackers now have their data as a result of a breach. “We are writing to let you know that we recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to our systems by […]

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