Data Thieves News Today

Several high-profile breaches have come to light, exposing the personal information of thousands of individuals. The incidents have targeted a range of sectors, including banking, healthcare, and ecommerce, raising concerns about the vulnerability of sensitive data in the digital age.

Michigan State University previously disclosed the breach in a notice to students and others.

Throwing money at security threats may be good exercise, but it won't do much to deter data thieves, ransomware bandits, and other bad guys.

Over 100,000 taxpayers just had something really unpleasant happen. and it was not paying their taxes. it was that their personal financial information was stolen by a sophisticated organization, an organized crime syndicate, to boot. the data thieves did not hack peoples personal computers, instead, they just went right to uncle sam, right to the irs and tapped in and got your information there. what? how does that happen? you think if youre going to be electronically filing and the irs will ha...

>> you work for these points. the ultimate concern really, the guy knows where i live but it certainly made me think twice about what can happen to you when you arent prepared. >> data thieves want to target places you dont check often. and reward account is checked less than a credit card account. >> reporter: your loyalty account is different from your bank account because banking companies use stricter security measures than rewards programs do. >> i worry about identity theft, bank accounts ...

Information. >> you work for these points. the ultimate concern really, the guy knows where i live but it certainly made me think twice about what can happen to you when you arent prepared. >> data thieves want to target places you dont check often. and reward account is checked less than a credit card account. >> reporter: your loyalty account is different from your bank account because banking companies use stricter security measures than rewards programs do. >> i worry about identity theft, b...

Be spent in stores in that country alone. boxing day was traditionally when servants and trades people received gifts from their bosses and now a day of discount shopping. the u.s. financial markets reopen today after the christmas break. asian markets are open and mostly higher this morning. u.s. stocks have been rising steadily since the federal reserve announced it would cut back on measures to prop up the economy. the dow closed at record highs the past five sessions. it is on track for th...

This thing gets going by saturday. severe storms across the deep south. disruptive snow from the lakes to the plains and significant ice in between. john and diana, back to you. >> all right, jim dickey, thank you. an update on a nationwide outbreak of salmonella from chicken. the cdc says 460 people have been sickened from eating chicken from foster farms. this drug-resistant form started to affect people in march. two other reports call for improved safety procedures to reduce that threat. ...

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Social security number and date of birth are known. among other victims, al gore, sarah palin, hillary clinton and singer beyonce. the data company equifax says at least some of their stolen information appears to come from what it called fraudulent and unauthorized access to the annualcreditreport.com website set up to let consumers see their own credit reports once a year for free. >> behind this website is data belonging to 200 million americans. even if people never visit the website, crimin...