Breach of personal data points to necessity of biometrics

The impersonators know where their targets live, and where their valuable assets are at night

09 June 2024 - 00:00

By Wendy Knowler

A bunch of people with sinister intentions called Discovery Insure agents over the course of a few weeks recently; and pretended to be 19 separate policyholders, asking for their schedules to be e-mailed to them. And those agents obliged.

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