Technology

Companies in the credit and collection industry would be wise to note that we are getting close to the time of year when most individuals who are registered on the Do Not Call list are going to complain to the Federal Trade Commission about receiving calls, according to an analysis …

The collection agency that was involved in a data breach that compromised the personal and financial information of more than 20 million individuals has filed for bankruptcy protection, saying it could not afford the expenses of dealing with the breach’s fallout. A copy of the company’s bankruptcy filing from the …

Collection agencies working medical debt, be forewarned. You are a reason why healthcare executives are tossing and turning in their beds every night, unable to fall asleep. And that was before a data breach at a collection agency exposed the personal and financial information of 20 million individuals. Third-party vendors …

A popular question that has popped up in the days following the announcement of a data breach at a collection agency that has exposed the personal and financial information of millions of individuals is, “why?” What’s in it for someone to try and steal information from a collection agency? Hacked …

One of the five commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission has written a letter to 14 different phone carriers, seeking details on how each plans to roll out their call blocking services to customers and whether the carriers plan to offer the service for free or charge for it. Geoffrey …

A third healthcare company has come forward and announced it was part of a data breach at American Medical Collection Agency. This time, Opko Health said that 423,000 individuals had their personal and financial records compromised as a result of unauthorized activity that occurred between August 1, 2018 and March …

In a move that should come as a surprise to nobody, the Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved a Declaratory Order that gives carriers and consumers more power to automatically block incoming calls, which could reduce the number of unwanted robocalls while also possibly intertwining legitimate calls in that net. In …

The news for the companies involved in a data breach at American Medical Collection Agency is only getting worse by the day. Following announcements from Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp that the personal information of as many as 19 million individuals has been compromised, including financial information and Social Security numbers, …

On the heels of the Federal Communications Commission looking to give phone carriers more power to block robocalls, and efforts in Congress to legislate the elimination of robocalls, comes the news that Apple is going to let Siri automatically block calls from people you do not know. At its Worldwide …

A data breach at a collection agency appears to have expanded to another company, after LabCorp announced that up to 8 million of its customers may have been affected. The news comes a day after Quest Diagnostics disclosed that the information of 12 million of its customers was compromised in …