Hackers operate off of fear. They'll call you with an urgent problem: Your bill is overdue! Pay now! But if they don't know your name, social security number, or anything else about you, it's a scam. Hang up and be satisfied that you thwarted yet another hack.
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In 2017, consumer reporting agency Equifax was breached, and the credit records of more than 140 million consumers—more than half the adults in the United States at the time—were extracted
You'd think that with all the cybersecurity tools and strategies we have at our fingertips, hacks would be a thing of the past, but they're not. What is that?
Hacks and scams are closely related, but aren't exactly the same.
