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Each Friday, we take a look at the most recent and interesting data compromises and the occasional privacy issue. This week, we're looking at the nation's toughest privacy law, the California Privacy Rights Act or “CPRA”, recently passed by California voters. For more information about the latest data breaches, check out our new look at breaches with notified: notified.idtheftcenter.org/s/ Check o...

Each Friday we take a look at the most recent and interesting data compromises. This week we’re going to look at two new research papers that show how consumers’ views of privacy and security are evolving in the US. One report focuses on recent changes in consumer attitudes…and the second report takes a longer-term look at how privacy and cybersecurity views have changed in the 25 years since the...

Welcome to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s Weekly Breach Breakdown where each Friday we take a look at the most recent and interesting data compromises. It's important to remember all that glitters is not gold, especially when it comes to well-know brands being spoofed as bait in phishing attacks. One company has jumped to the top of the heap when it comes to fake emails and fake websites. Da...

Host: James Lee, ITRC COO Guests: Crystal Sargent, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Invested Advisors, Inc. and serves on ITRC Board of Directors One of the significant trends in 2020 is the shift by cybercriminals away from primarily stealing highly personal consumer information to using the data they’ve already stolen. Among those attacks are cybercriminals hijacking the unemployment benef...

Each Friday we take a look at the most interesting data compromises of the past week. Not all data breaches are the result of professional cybercriminals hacking their way into a company. Sometimes, data compromises happen because of malicious insiders who are looking to make a quick buck. That’s what happened a few weeks ago to the popular online e-commerce platform used by small retailers and gl...