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Scams, Hacks & Breaches

Pastor Drains Church and Daycare Funds To Fund Luxury Lifestyle, Triggering $3,222,771 Tax Loss: DOJ

A pastor and businessman from New York has admitted to a tax evasion scheme that cost the US government millions…

December 21, 2025

181,160 Americans Warned After Major Cybersecurity Breach Hits Healthcare Firm, Placing Trove of Sensitive Data at Risk

The personal information of thousands of US citizens is now at risk after a healthcare firm suffered a security breach.…

December 20, 2025

Bank Employee Accused of Quietly Draining $40,000 From Customers’ Accounts in Just Five Weeks

A bank employee is accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from customers' accounts over a period of less…

December 20, 2025

Bank Paying Up To $5,000 Per Customer After Data Breach Exposed Social Security Numbers, Account Numbers and Contact Info

A US bank has agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the…

December 20, 2025

Bank Paying Up To $5,000 Per Customer After Data Breach Exposed Social Security Numbers, Account Numbers and Contact Info

A US bank has agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the…

December 20, 2025

5,836,521 Americans Alerted After Hackers Breach Credit Reporting Firm – Names, Social Security Numbers and More Potentially Exposed

A massive data breach at a credit reporting firm has potentially exposed the personal information of more than 5.8 million…

December 19, 2025

Staggering $420,000,000 Real Estate Scheme Exposed As DOJ Nabs Bank Fraud Mastermind

The U.S. Department of Justice says a 34-year-old nurse anesthetist and real estate investor is the mastermind of a massive…

December 18, 2025

Scammer Posing As JPMorgan Chase Convinces Woman To Withdraw $12,000 From Bank Account, Hand It to ‘FBI Agent’: Report

An elderly woman has lost $12,000 after a fraudster pretending to work at JPMorgan Chase duped her into thinking her…

December 16, 2025

Post Office Worker Steals $156,000 From Residents, Cashing Stolen Checks in Fraudulent Bank Account: DOJ

A US postal worker has admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars by cashing people's checks in the mail.…

December 15, 2025

Insider Drains $345,014 From Accounts Within Weeks of Joining US Lender – Here’s How

A former employee at a US lender will spend more than two years behind bars for taking hundreds of thousands…

December 14, 2025