On this episode of Justice, One Client at a Time, we look at a phishing scam that involved impersonating a New York attorney general in order to hack cryptocurrency platforms.

Saks Fifth Avenue and Lords & Taylor suffered a massive data breach in which over five million debit and credit cards were stolen from department store customers. A cybersecurity research firm said it believed a notorious group of hackers obtained customers’ financial information by preying on outdated in-store credit card systems. The card numbers were…

According to the FBI’s Internet Complaint Center, or IC3, losses that reportedly occurred because of internet crime totaled $1.3 billion in 2016. The top three kinds of crimes by reported loss were: BEC [business email compromise] Romance and confidence fraud Non-payment and non-delivery scams Within the Internet Crime Report of 2016, the FBI’s cyber division…

If you are receiving an excessive amount of connection requests on LinkedIn from people you do not know, be careful not to provide them with any personal or financial information. Such requests could be part of phishing campaigns, which are among the most prevalent methods of obtaining someone’s passwords and personal data. In one such…