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Monday, 15 June 2015

Officials say deeply personal information in hackers' hands

FILE - In this June 5, 2015, file photo, a gate leading to the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington. Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, June 11, 2015, charging that the cyberattack on U.S. employee data is far worse than the Obama administration has acknowledged. Photo: Susan Walsh, AP / AP
For those who might be a bit careless or not particularly tech savvy, you could leave yourself open to phishing attacks. More often than not, there are emails being sent to unsuspecting users asking them to reset their bank password, but these emails contain links that takes the user to a website that looks like it belongs to their bank, but in reality it is a phishing scheme.