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Why You Should Join a Credit Union Instead of a Bank
When you think about money—saving it, paying bills with it, earning interest on it—you probably think of a bank. Or possibly Scrooge McDuck swimming in a pool filled with gold coins—but probably a bank. The average person in this country has more than five bank accounts, after all, despite the fact that banks aren’t always the best or friendliest places…
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Patelco Credit Union increases ransomware data breach figure to over 1M people
At the end of last week, Patelco Credit Union issued an updated data breach notification on the Maine AG website. In this revised notice, it increased the number of people affected from 726,000 to 1,009,472. This follows a ransomware attack via RansomHub in June 2024. This makes this ransomware attack the eighth largest this year so far based on records…
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Pennsylvania credit union notifies 99K people of data breach that compromised SSNs
First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union over the weekend confirmed it notified 98,809 people about a June 2024 data breach that compromised names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and account numbers. Ransomware gang Meow claimed responsibility for the attack. The group posted 400 GB of allegedly stolen data for sale at a price of $100,000 on its leak site, which…
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