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September 29th 2018 Facebook has revealed a breach that gave hackers the ability to take over users’ accounts. Some 50 million users have been affected, making it the largest breach in the social network’s history. The problem was discovered...
29 September 2018
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September 25th 2018 Action Fraud has launched a campaign to warn people about the threat of computer software service fraud, one of the country’s most reported top five frauds. For more information and Get Safe Online's video on fake computer...
25 September 2018
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September 17th 2018 New figures from the City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) have revealed that 17-24 year olds are most likely* to fall victim to fraudsters selling fake care insurance, also known as ‘ghost...
17 September 2018
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September 12th 2018 TV Licensing – the organisation which informs UK viewers of the need to buy a TV licence, holds the database of licensed and unlicensed address and controls licence enforcement – has warned some customers that their data...
12 September 2018
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September 7th 2018 British Airways Chief Executive, Álex Cruz, has apologised for the breach in which it is thought that approximately 380,000 payment cards have been compromised after a data theft from its website and app. The protracted...
7 September 2018
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August 15th 2018 Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, has released new figures showing that identity fraud has fallen for the first time since 2014. Cifas members recorded 84,463 cases in the first six months of the year, a 5%...
14 August 2018
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August 14th 2018 A new campaign to tackle pension scams launches today as the latest figures reveal that victims of pension scammers lost an average of £91,000 each in 2017. For Get Safe Online's information and advice on protecting...
14 August 2018
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July 4th 2018 We are sleepwalking into a perilous new world of high-tech cybercrime. That is the stark warning in a new report issued by fraud watchdog the Fraud Advisory Panel (FAP) A society-wide failure to properly prepare for the next...
4 July 2018
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