May 5, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, March
Who: University of Waterloo # of Accounts Breached: 2000 Students exposed What was affected: Personal information including names, student numbers, addresses and banking information When it happened: March 6, 2019 How it happened: Personal information including names,...
Oct 13, 2018 | Business, Radio Show, Security
Face It! You’re Going To Be Hacked, So Set Up Your Financial Accounts Like You’re Going To Be Hacked In the past week alone, Experian, Facebook and Google have all experienced (or divulged, in Google’s case) security breaches of various levels of seriousness,...
Sep 22, 2018 | Business, Google, Radio Show, Security
Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data In Secret, And That’s Not Even The Bad News Bloomberg reports that Google purchased a trove of credit card transaction data from Mastercard, allegedly for “millions of dollars.” Google then reportedly used that data to...
Sep 15, 2018 | Business, Radio Show, Security
It Will Soon Be Free To Freeze (And Unfreeze) Your US Credit Report In the wake of the Equifax data breach one year ago, in which an estimated 145 million consumers’ personal information was stolen from the credit agency, one of the very few countermeasures customers...
Jun 23, 2018 | Business, Radio Show, Security
Cryptocurrency Theft: $1.1 Billion Stolen in Last 6 Months Evidence continues to mount that cryptocurrency-seeking criminals are no longer bent solely on boosting bitcoins or demanding ransomware or other extortion campaign payoffs only in that virtual currency. The...