Consumers Often Pay a Steep Price for Cybercrime - Consumer Affairs
Consumer Affairs - by Mark Hoffman
Cyberattacks are in the news this month, especially when Sony Pictures was victimized by hackers intent on preventing a new movie satirizing North Korea's ruler from being shown, broke into the company's network.
But attacks on consumers are a much more common occurrence. We hear a lot about consumers falling for online scams, having their credit and debit card accounts hacked and being victimized by other types of cyber-fraud. We rarely hear about what happens next.
Do these stories have a happy ending? It turns out a lot of them don't.
