Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

Hacked or ill-gotten accounts at consumer data brokers have fueled ID theft and identity theft services of various sorts for years. Secret Service had arrested a 24-year-old man named Hieu Minh Ngo for running an identity theft service out of his home in Vietnam. info and findget[.]me,

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Accountability Identity Theft Hacking Insurance 351

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It applies to any organization that manages data of 10,000 or more U.S. It was enacted to prevent and mitigate identity theft, provide notice of security breaches, and enhance law enforcement assistance. citizens during any 12 months. On the other hand, the Homeland Security Act, signed into law by George W.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

SHA1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm 1) has been broken since 2004 and can be breached quickly by criminals at relatively little cost. Moreover, the database contained physical addresses – paired with names, email addresses, and phone numbers, this information could be used for identity theft or harassment.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2004 — Lowe’s — Brian Salcedo is sentenced to 9 years for hacking into Lowe’s home improvement stores and attempting to steal customer credit card information. . 2004 — ChoicePoint — A 41-year-old Nigerian citizen compromises customer data of ChoicePoint, but the company only informs 35,000 people of the breach.

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