It was inevitable, I just didn’t think it would happen so soon. Someone with a deep background in the hacker world is a serious candidate for President. Beto O’Rourke was an early member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, according to this remarkable story by Joseph Menn at Reuters. [Keep reading]
There are some things you can do in a podcast you can’t do with the written word. Here’s one: For this episode of Breach, we tracked down audio of the CEO of Equifax speaking at a business school in 2017. His words are tough to take knowing what we know [Keep reading]
Congress once again hauled Equifax in front of a committee to testify about its 2017 hack on Thursday, and issued yet another report outlining a cascade of errors at the firm which led to the incident. The Equifax hack is the subject of our 6-week investigative podcast, Breach. Click here [Keep reading]
“This is, potentially, the motherload. The big one we’ve all been waiting for.” — Ron Lieber, The New York Times “Your Money” columnist. So begins our second season of Breach, which just dropped today. We begin with an episode titled “Why, Equifax?” — which means all the things you think [Keep reading]
Why was Equifax hacked? Who was behind it? Who deserves the blame? And what should you do now? We’re asking all those questions, and providing most of the answers, in the second season of the Breach cast, dropping March 4. Six months in the making, it’s *almost* here. Together with [Keep reading]
It took more than four hours of questions aimed at credit bureau CEOs, but finally, after a marathon House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday morning / afternoon … the National Consumer Law Center’s Chi Chi Wu said what had to be said. “I’ve testified before Congress … six times,” [Keep reading]
Ever see a price for an item online, then look again and see a different price, and think you were going crazy? Probably not. You were probably encountering some form of dynamic pricing, which retailers have quietly dabbled in for many years. Quietly, because every time consumers find out about [Keep reading]
Lonely would-be lovers are falling for con artists at an alarming rate, with devastating consequences – the average victim loses $18,831, according to a new report by the National Consumers League. The group says complaints about fake lovers to their organization basically doubled last year. “Scammers will stop at nothing to [Keep reading]
Just how do victims of a massive data breach prove they were harmed — and how is that harm calculated so the victims might be compensated through a lawsuit? That’s been one of the central legal questions facing the millions of consumers who have their privacy violated every year through [Keep reading]
Free money is good. Getting free money as retribution from a misbehaving company — like a robocaller — is even better, says David Bookbinder. He was bragging to friends the other day about a $77 check he received because he’d registered as a “victim” in a class action lawsuit…months ago. [Keep reading]
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