The US-based fraud prevention and detection tech company used its proprietary algorithm to analyse over 1,000 elements of five data breaches to produce their respective risk ratings. Breach Clarity’s analysis revealed that five recently reported data breaches put victimised consumers at greater risk of targeted scams:
However, every data breach exposes different types of information. Whereas the April 2020 breach of video conferencing app Zoom exposed email addresses, passwords, and personal meeting URLs, the March 2020 breach of Tupperware.com exposed credit and debit card information and billing addresses. Cybercriminals use each type of stolen data in unique ways: email phishing scams rely on a good, clean set of legitimate email addresses. Payment fraud depends on accurate and complete credit or debit card data. COVID-19 scammers are relying heavily on socially engineering to make attacks on financial accounts.
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