September 2021

The Federal Trade Commission issued a press release “that the defendants and their agents threatened consumers with arrest and imprisonment and tried to collect debts that consumers did not actually owe.”  The September 27, 2021 press release entitled “Bogus Debt Collectors Permanently Banned from Collections in FTC Settlement&rdquo

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BankInfosSecurity.com reported that “Anonymous “press release” announcing the Epik data breach…More than 15 million email addresses and accompanying personal details have been leaked online under the banner of Anonymous.”  The September 20, 2021 report entitled “Web Hoster Epik’s Breach Exposes 15 Million Email Addresses” included these comments:

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The Department of Commerce issued a press release about the creation of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) which “will consist of expert leaders from a broad and interdisciplinary range of AI-relevant disciplines from across academia, industry, non-profits and civil society, and federal laboratories. These experts will be qualified

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) and Division of Enforcement’s Retail Strategy Task Force (RSTF) issued an investor alert to “remind investors to watch out for investment schemes involving digital assets and “Crypto.” Fraudsters continue to exploit the rising popularity of digital assets

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a news release that “it had filed an action against BitConnect, an online crypto lending platform, its founder Satish Kumbhani, and its top U.S. promoter and his affiliated company, alleging that they defrauded retail investors out of $2 billion through a global fraudulent

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