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Scam alert: New data leak exposes financial info of 600,000 consumers

Posted on April 9, 2021

Data breaches and exploits are nothing new to the online world.

In fact, it seems like they happen every day.

As reported by our friends at BleepingComputer, this latest massive data leak has a strange twist to it.

Apparently several groups that traffic in stolen credit card and banking information on the dark web are exposing the info in each others’ databases in some sort of weird retribution spree.

These actions have resulted in the credit card and banking info of 600,000 consumers being leaked onto the open web.

There are other factors involved in this latest leak as well, but the details aren’t really as important as taking steps to mitigate the damage if it turn out you were one of the affected consumers.

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Q&A: Strange posts are being published on my blog without my permission. How can I stop it?

Posted on February 1, 2021

Question from Melvin: I have a “health and wellness” blog that I’ve been writing for over four years now. It runs on WordPress.

I write several new posts each week and the blog now has over a thousand posts on it.

About a month ago I paid a guy to make some updates to the blog to make it more attractive and add a couple of new features that I’d seen on other blogs.

With my permission he ended up changing the blog to a new theme (Divi). Now I have a big problem that I hope you can help me with.

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