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Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number
In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing a rule limiting data brokers’ ability to sell Americans’ sensitive personal and financial information. Under the proposed rule, data brokers that sell information about consumers’ income, credit history, credit score, or debt payments would be considered consumer reporting agencies. As…
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How to opt out of CocoFinder (and other data brokers)
People-finder sites like CocoFinder harvest your personal information and make it available in an online database. This allows anybody to purchase your sensitive personal information. In this guide, we explain how to opt out of CocoFinder so you can stop this dangerous website from selling your personal information. Data brokers like CocoFinder sell records of your phone numbers, current and…
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Iranian hackers act as brokers selling critical infrastructure access
Iranian hackers are breaching critical infrastructure organizations to collect credentials and network data that can be sold on cybercriminal forums to enable cyberattacks from other threat actors. Government agencies in the U.S., Canada, and Australia believe that Iranian hackers are acting as initial access brokers and use brute-force techniques to gain access to organizations in the healthcare and public health…
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