It’s 5:05, on Thursday, December 1, 2022. Coming from the 5:05 offices in New York City, this is Mark Miller. Stories for today come from Edwin Kwan in Sydney Australia on the six gigabytes dump of up to 10 million customer's personal data from Medibank, and Pokie Huang in New York City on the TikTok invisible body challenge. 

I’ll be adding to my continuing series on scams focusing on the elderly. Today’s segment is on holiday scams with gift cards, and the difference of online payments with debit cards vs credit cards.. 

Let’s get to it!

🇺🇸 Mark Miller, New York City

Holiday scams against the elderly

The scammers are coming for you. Here’s how to protect yourself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/24/safe-online-holiday-shopping-tips/

🇺🇸 Pokie Huang, New York City

Tiktok invisible challenge

https://www.techradar.com/news/hackers-are-exploiting-this-new-tiktok-craze-to-push-malware

https://checkmarx.com/blog/attacker-uses-a-popular-tiktok-challenge-to-lure-users-into-installing-malicious-package/

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia

Largest file dump from Medibank Breach

https://amp.smh.com.au/business/companies/case-closed-medibank-hackers-release-massive-data-file-20221201-p5c2pu.html