A version of a scam has hit panicky travelers over and over and over and over. People searching Google for airline contact information when they have a problem occasionally find bogus customer service phone numbers listed at or near the top of Google. If you call, crooks posing as airline reps try to persuade you to pay to rebook a flight or another task. Your money goes poof. No one knows how often this scam happens. But this airline customer service misdirection is common knowledge in the… Source link
Read More »Finland bans tech group Yandex from transferring customer data to Russia – Yahoo Finance
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Read More »Google Fi says customer data may have been stolen by hackers
Google has notified customers using its Google Fi cell service that their personal data may have been stolen in a recent cyberattack, which is believed to be in connection with a T-Mobile data breach earlier this month. In an email sent to Google Fi customers on Monday, obtained by Android Police, Google said that the cell network’s primary network provider had become aware of suspicious activity in a system containing Google Fi customer data. Google Fi is an MVNO that uses T-Mobile’s… Source link
Read More »Google Fi Customer Data Accessed After ‘Suspicious Activity’
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Read More »Google Fi Customer Data Part of T-Mobile’s Latest Data Breach
T-Mobile has had more data breaches in recent years than I can even count or keep track of, and the latest appears to have affected customers that aren’t even their own subscribers. Tonight, Google Fi is sharing information with customers about their data being accessed, thanks to their “primary network provider” noticing suspicious activity on a system they utilize. For those who aren’t familiar, Google Fi uses T-Mobile’s network for the majority of its connections. The… Source link
Read More »Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred FTX customer funds to Alameda Research after his trading firm suffered losses in the spring, report says
Sam Bankman-Fried.Craig Barritt/Getty Images for CARE For Special Children Sam Bankman-Fried transferred at least $4 billion in FTX funds to Alameda Research earlier this year, sources told Reuters. The money included customer funds as well as those backed by FTX’s native token FTT and shares in Robinhood. The Wall Street Journal reported FTX lent more than half of its $16 billion in customer funds to Alameda in total. Sam Bankman-Fried transferred at least $4 billion from FTX to Alameda… Source link
Read More »Impressive Customer Wins Indicate Momentum For Google Cloud
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian delivers the keynote at Google Cloud Next 2022 in New York City at … [+] the Pier 57 Google Office. Daniel Newman – Futurum Research The cloud market is increasingly competitive, and while AWS and Microsoft have been the leaders by market share, we have seen in recent times names like Oracle, IBM, and Google, all ambitiously working to compete in the cloud marketplace with each finding footing as cloud adoption continues to proliferate. This week at… Source link
Read More »American Airlines says hackers obtained some customer and employee data
says that hackers may have obtained personal information for a “very small number” of customers and employees. The company did not say exactly how many people were impacted, though it noted there’s no evidence that the attackers have misused the information. It told affected customers that names, driver’s license and passport numbers, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and medical information may have been compromised. The hackers gained access to American’s email… Source link
Read More »SOS: Oh, the humanity, or lack thereof in Google, Meta customer ‘help’ | Just Ask Us
Editor’s note: This SOS column is one in an occasional series highlighting companies that prove themselves unresponsive, unhelpful or uninterested in explaining themselves. Tech giants Google and Meta offer a lot of online, automated help for customers who run into trouble with their products. But good luck finding an actual, named human employee to do what the machines can’t (or won’t). Chris Hornung, 70, formerly of rural Verona, emailed SOS in March to say YouTube had… Source link
Read More »Smoke shop customer who fatally shot would-be robber charged with second-degree murder
The Solano Square shopping complex is open for business Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. City officials say a person was fatally shot on the 1400 block of Missouri Avenue — the address of the complex — on Monday, Dec. 20. LAS CRUCES – Chuko Sandoval told detectives that he stuck around inside a smoke shop on a late December evening after making a purchase because another man was “acting weird” and making the clerks uncomfortable. When the other man — later identified as Anthony D. Malone —… Source link
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