Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
U.S. Consumers Lost $2.1 Billion in Social Media Scams in 2025, FTC Says
An FTC report says that Americans last year lost $2.1 billion in social media scams, such as shopping and investment schemes. Social media site have become the place where most of these ...
Hackers Steal Personal Data in 700Credit Breach Affecting 5.6 Million
A data breach of credit reporting and ID verification services firm 700Credit affected 5.6 million people, allowing hackers to steal personal information of customers of the firm's client companies. 700Credit executives said ...
Microsoft’s ‘Gross Cybersecurity Negligence Threatens National Security’
Roasting Redmond for Kerberoasting: “Like an arsonist selling firefighting services,” quips this 76-year-old ...
Wyden Asks FTC to Investigate Microsoft’s ‘Gross Cybersecurity Negligence’
For the second time in two years, Senator Ron Wyden is asking federal regulators to investigate Microsoft's cybersecurity practices, saying the ongoing weaknesses in the Windows OS is making federal agencies, critical ...
FTC Orders GoDaddy to Bolster its Security After Years of Attacks
Web hosting giant GoDaddy for years has mislead customers about the strength of its security program, but after a series of data breaches, the FTC is ordering the company to implements robust ...
‘Microsoft’ Scammers Steal the Most, the FTC Says
Scammers impersonating Microsoft, Publishers Clearing House, Amazon and Apple are at the top of the FTC’s “who’s who” list. Based on consumer reports and complaints to the agency, hundreds of millions of ...
FCC Fines Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile for Sharing User Location Data
The country's largest wireless providers failed to get the consent of customers before selling the data to aggregators, the agency says ...
FTC Warns AI Companies About Changing Policies to Leverage User Data
The Federal Trade Commission is warning AI companies against secretly changing their security and privacy policies in hopes of leveraging the data they collect from customers to feed models they use to ...
InMarket is Second Data Broker to Settle with FTC This Month
For the second time this month, the Federal Trade Commission is banning a data broker from selling or licensing precise location data without getting the consumer’s consent. Under the 14-page FTC order, ...
Drizly FTC Breach Case May Put CISOs on the Hook for Civil Liability
In 2019, Boston-based online booze company Drizly had a data breach that exposed the personal data of about 1.2 million customers. The breach occurred (as so many do) when hackers were able ...
