The Virginia Beach Sheriff’s department wants you to know that their office will never contact you by phone to collect money. The latest reported scam is someone posing as a Sheriff (“Captain Holloway”) is telling people that he has a warrant for their arrest because of missed jury duty. The caller threatens to come downcontinue reading…
Credit Reporting Disputes
Anthem Hacked – 80 Million at Risk of Fraud
News just broke about yet another major data breach – Anthem, our nation’s second-largest insurance provider, has been hacked. Last week an employee noticed a database query was being run using his code without his authorization. After determining it was an attack on their systems, Anthem informed the FBI and hired Mandiant, a cybersecurity unit,continue reading…
Identity Theft Within the Medical Industry
WVEC.com posted an article from USA Today about the rise of identity theft within the medical industry. With everything moving towards being digitally and online-based, hackers are becoming an even more prevalent part of security and privacy concerns. According to a study done by the Ponemon Institute, the healthcare industry accounted for 44% of datacontinue reading…
Suffolk Woman Guilty of Repeated Identity Theft.
Do you wonder how people can steal your identity and purchase cars, homes, and student loans? You can see how they can get ahold of credit cards, but medical care and mortgages? These usually require picture identification and yet it happens every day. The case of Suffolk resident Shelia Clark Lewis shows that there arecontinue reading…
Technology Driven Virginia Attorney Discusses Protecting Yourself Against Cyber Theft.
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and so I am going to focus on information and tips regarding online/mobile security. As I’ve written about a few times, you must have strong, secure passwords. My favorite password manager is LastPass. LastPass will even check the strength of your existing passwords to see what you should change. continue reading…