identity theft

When the Company Guarding Your House Gets Robbed

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This summer, criminals broke into Brinks Home. Not a house Brinks protects. The company itself. SecurityWeek reported the disclosure on August 3: an extortion group called ShinyHunters got into a customer-data system, demanded payment, did not get it, and published roughly 41 gigabytes of files. Have I Been Pwned, the breach-notification service run by security … Read more

The Free Lock Almost No Family Sets

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Another week, another breach notice. Your Social Security number, your birth date, your address: out there for good, and no amount of careful behavior pulls them back. It’s easy to slide into a shrug. If everything is already exposed, why bother? But the thief’s plan still needs one more thing you can deny them: the … Read more