Half of Americans didn’t get a raise last year, according to Bankrate.com. And that’s the good news (more people got raises this year than last year). The bad news: The less you earn, the less likely you were to get a raise. This reality leads to another: the gig economy [Keep reading]
Click to visit Wawa’s information page about the hackIf you used a credit or debit card at a Wawa convenience store or gas station between April 22 and December 12, your payment information has been compromised. The retail giant announced on Thursday that criminals managed to place malicious software on [Keep reading]
A big takeaway from my experience with this reporting: This is the decade we were brainwashed into surveilling ourselves. In just over 10 years we were sold a future of personalization and convenience and paid for it with little pieces of ourselves that we can never get back. — Charlie [Keep reading]
Combine old-fashioned money-mule-job-listing fraud with Zelle fraud and there’s a big new headache that job seekers and bank consumers have to worry about. Ngoc Nguyen says she lost $999 this way recently, and an Indeed.com user was an unwitting accomplice to the crime. So far, Nguyen’s financial institution – Regions [Keep reading]
Parents in Tennessee say a hacker sang songs to their children in their bedroom through a Ring camera. A Texas Ring user says she was threatened with extortion through her front doorbell camera. In Florida, another victim told local media that a hacker started screaming racial slurs at a child [Keep reading]
Bob Sullivan