Accountability Data breaches Hacking Scams 
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 2, 2020
For at least the third time in its existence, OGUsers — a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts — has been hacked. An offer by the apparent hackers of OGUsers, offering to remove account information from the eventual database leak in exchange for payment.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 23, 2023
The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. The incident was discovered on May 24, but further investigation revealed that threat actors have had access to the compromised email accounts at least since March 2023.
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Troy Hunt
APRIL 12, 2021
This post has been brewing for a while, but the catalyst finally came after someone (I'll refer to him as Jimmy) recently emailed me regarding the LOQBOX data breach from 2020. The data never began circling within the usual hacking groups, it never turned up publicly and thus never appeared in Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).
Krebs on Security
JULY 12, 2018
Here’s a clever new twist on an old email scam that could serve to make the con far more believable. The basic elements of this sextortion scam email have been around for some time, and usually the only thing that changes with this particular message is the Bitcoin address that frightened targets can use to pay the amount demanded.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 16, 2022
There was no reason to believe Holistic-K1ller had fabricated their breach claim. This identity has been highly active on Breached and its predecessor RaidForums for more than two years, mostly selling databases from hacked Mexican entities. That same month, they also sold data on 1.4 “Who does it?
Security Affairs
JANUARY 30, 2021
US wireless carrier UScellular discloses data breach, personal information of customers may have been exposed and their phone numbers ported. US wireless carrier UScellular discloses a data breach that exposed personal information of its customers. ” reads the USCellular data breach notification.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Giant office retail company Staples disclosed a data breach, threat actors accessed some of its customers’ order data. Staples, the office retail giant, disclosed a data breach, it notified its customers that their order data have been accessed by threat actors without authorization.
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