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While overall holiday shopping traffic is predicted to be down for 2022 by the National Retail Federation (NRF), the number of consumers shopping online continues to grow. 36 percent of Americans have fallen victim to online holiday shopping scams, according to Norton. Nearly 80 percent of adults in the U.S. shop online, according to Statista,

TransUnion, one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies, was breached earlier this month. The exact number of individuals affected is unknown as the agency did not release this information upon reporting the breach to the Massachusetts Attorney General. The breach potentially exposed private data of  TransUnion customers nationwide – names, Social Security Numbers,

Text message scams are on the rise, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with scam texts costing Americans over $10 billion in 2021. In 2019, just 5,700 people notified the FCC of unwanted text messages. That number more than doubled in 2020, with 14,000 people complaining of scam text messages. 2022 is on track

The Federal Trade Commission called social media a “gold mine” for scammers in its 2021 Consumer Protection Data Spotlight. With 82 percent of the U.S. population having at least one social networking profile, cybercriminals have found new ways to steal. According to the FTC, more than one in four people who reported losing money to