Data breaches are up 58 percent in the first half of the year and are on a record-setting pace. Herb Weisbaum, a Consumers' Checkbook contributing editor, discusses how to safeguard your online accounts.

Data Breaches Skyrocket; Here's How to Safeguard Your Online Accounts

Welcome back to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s Weekly Breach Breakdown – supported by Sentilink. This is the episode for the first week of May 2024 and I’m James Lee, the ITRC’s COO. Each week on this podcast, we look at the most recent events and trends related to data security and privacy.

This week, we going to look at a surprise announcement that Congress may be nearing a compromise on a national privacy and data security law. The key words there are “may” and “nearing.” If our friend William Shakespeare were writing this update, this would be no doubt be Act II, Scene i, because this is just the opening round (scene one) of the second attempt (Act II) in this decade to pass a comprehensive federal privacy law.

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The Weekly Breach Breakdown Podcast by ITRC - Act II Scene I - S5E14

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