| Volume 144 Number 50 |
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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
More and more places are requiring proof that you’ve had a COVID-19 vaccine or have recently tested negative before giving you access. Scammers see this as an opportunity to profit by selling fake verification tools or products, like fake vaccination cards, certificates, and test results. Click here for more.
T-Mobile says six million additional accounts were affected by recent data breach
T-Mobile said Friday that the data breach it disclosed earlier this week affected significantly more people than initially believed.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the carrier said an additional 5.3 postpaid accounts and 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid accounts were affected. This brings the total number of affected consumers to more than 54 million.
On Wednesday, the company confirmed that hackers were able to access data on 7.8 million of its postpaid customers, along with the records of 40 million former and prospective customers.
Information stolen included customers’ first and last names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license/ID information. In its latest filing with the SEC, the carrier said phone numbers and IMEI and IMSI details (identifiers for mobile devices and SIM cards respectively) were also compromised.
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Your Money
FICA stands for the Federal Insurance Contributions Act. This law outlines that taxes should be withheld from paychecks and used to fund the Social Security and Medicare programs. Both employees and employers are impacted by the FICA tax. Here's a look at how the FICA tax is calculated. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
Opposing counsel is not a DTPA consumer as to court reporter hired by opposing counsel. Opposing counsel is not third-party beneficiary of court reporters services. The court stated, “Miller's admission that he never agreed to purchase a copy of the transcripts from KTA, and sought to review the transcripts as a matter of right under Rule 30(e)—and never received the transcript—establishes Miller did not seek KTA's services by ‘purchase or lease’ and he never ‘acquired" KTA's services.’” Miller v. Kim Tindall & Assocs., LLC, 2021 Tex. App. LEXIS 6765 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2021, no pet. h.) Click here for more.