Adam K. Levin, the former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, is the co-founder of Credit.com and the founder of CyberScout."Executive Profile Adam K. Levin"
''Bloomberg Businessweek'' He is the author of the Amazon Best Seller ''Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves'', and is host of the Webby-nominated podcast ''What the Hack with Adam Levin.''

Education

Levin received an A.B. from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

and his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974.

Career

As Director of Consumer Affairs in New Jersey, he worked with the

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and various state regulatory agencies to enact over 40 major consumer protection laws and regulations."Five Questions with Adam Levin, Chairman and Co-founder of Credit.com"
, ''The Score'', August 2012 He led the fight to force 15 million unsafe Firestone 500 tires off the road. Levin advised consumers on symptoms that indicated failing tires and the proper way to check tires for defects. He developed new consumer educational materials and distribution channels and made over 1,200 consumer educational presentations in five years. Other accomplishments as Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs include the promotion of statewide financial literacy programs, two major tire recalls, and a national effort to secure the right for professionals to advertise- an occurrence which created favorable conditions for price competition and established greater consumer protections in the health spa industry. In 1982, he resigned his post as Director of Consumer Affairs to run for office. He won the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District. Levin ran against the Republican Matthew Rinaldo but was unsuccessful in unseating Rinaldo who had been the five term incumbent in the 7th Congressional District. Once the election was over, Levin entered the real estate business and co-founded Kingswood Management, the Regal Management (formerly Bellmarc-Regal Management), one of the largest residential property management companies in New York City. In 1994, he co-founded Credit.com Inc, an online financial services educator and resource for consumers to manage their credit finances. In 2003, he founded CyberScout, an online provider of identity management, identity theft recovery services, breach services and data risk management for businesses. Levin is also the president of the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation (which is a major contributor to the renovation of 19th-century paintings galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and is on the board of the

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. Levin's speaking topics include a broad range of security and personal finance topics, the benefits and perils of credit, the continuing struggle between convenience and security online; how professionals and businesses can better protect consumer and employee data, as well as trade secrets and intellectual property, privacy issues and the "

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", protecting data in a world of connected devices, the growing epidemic of tax fraud and medical ID theft and how "breaches have become the third certainty in life", along with the inevitability of identity theft and expert tips on how consumers can minimize their risk of exposure, monitor their credit and identity, and identify effective damage control programs.

What the Hack with Adam Levin Podcast

Levin hosts a weekly podcast called ''What the Hack with Adam Levin'', with co-hosts

Beau Friedlander Beau Friedlander is an American writer, publisher, and media consultant. He was the founder of Context Books, an award-winning small press, an editor-in-chief at Air America (radio network), Air America and garnered notoriety as a provocateur for pr ...

and Travis Taylor, which features guests and experts who discuss their experiences with scams, identity theft, privacy and other cyber-related issues. Notable guests have included Sen. Al Franken, Daily Show Correspondent

Roy Wood, Jr. Roy Norris Wood Jr. (born December 11, 1978) is an American humorist, stand-up comedian, radio personality, actor, producer, podcaster, and writer best known for his correspondent appearances on ''The Daily Show with Trevor Noah''. A native of ...

and others. In 2023, ''What the Hack'' won two Signal Awards, a Gold AVA Award, and was nominated for a Webby.https://www.webbyawards.com/news/the-2023-webby-nominees-for-best-host-co-hosts-and-featured-guest/

References

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