Gig Workers Being Paid $500 for Payroll Passwords
Argyle is paying workers to help hack payroll providers, researchers suspect. Fintech startup Argyle, a financial-services platform aimed at gig workers, is working to replace credit scores assigned by bureaus like Equifax. But closer security analysis hints that Argyle could be just the latest incarnation of an ongoing data-collection campaign, paying people to give up their payroll login credentials on a massive scale, researchers said. Argyle is marketed as a way for the growing numbers of gig workers (such as those that drive for companies like Uber, DoorDash or Instacart) to consolidate ...