Ever wonder why fraudsters love hearing about another data breach?

Because every leaked email, password, or personal detail is fuel for their next scam. Data leaks are the gift that keeps on giving.

Here's how fraudsters take advantage:

🔓 Credential Stuffing - Using leaked usernames and passwords to break into your other accounts.

🎯 Spray and Pray - Trying a few common passwords like "Welcome123" or "Spring2024!" across many accounts, hoping someone still uses them.

📬 Tailored Phishing - Using leaked data (names, companies, emails) to make scams look legitimate.

🔐 Account Takeovers - Logging into old or forgotten accounts with exposed credentials.

💳 Payment Fraud - Misusing credit card info or personal data to commit financial fraud or open mule account.

🧩 Identity Building - Combining leaks from different sources to create rich profiles used in social engineering or synthetic identity fraud.

🤖 Bot-Driven Attacks - Automating the use of leaked credentials across thousands of services, non-stop.

🏷️ Impersonation Scams - Posing as you to trick colleagues, customers, or service providers.

🧨 Extortion - Threatening to expose private or sensitive information unless a ransom is paid.

💼 Espionage - Targeting companies with insider info from leaked emails or org charts.

🚨 Quick check - are you doing all of these to reduce your data leak risk?

- Use strong, unique passwords for every account.

- Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible.

- Monitor breach alerts and change passwords quickly if you're exposed.

- Avoid oversharing personal info online.

- Never send sensitive documents over email or unsecured apps.

- Use a password manager instead of saving credentials in notes or files.

- Be cautious with emails, even from known sources - check the sender and where links really go.