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Child health data stolen in registry breach

Malwarebytes

The personal health information that was copied was collected from a large network of mostly Ontario health care facilities and providers regarding fertility, pregnancy, newborn and child health care offered between January 2010 and May 2023. Countermeasures BORN states that there are no additional steps you need to take.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as “ Hieupc ” was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some of the world’s top data brokers. Ngo’s former identity theft service, superget[.]info. Secret Service.

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APT41 actors charged for attacks on more than 100 victims globally

Security Affairs

In August 2019 and August 2020, a federal grand jury announced two separate indictments charging the five Chinese nationals with facilitating theft of source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data, and valuable business information. They two suspects have been arrested this week in Sitiawan, Malaysia, on U.S.

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Operator of Codeshop Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 months in prison

Security Affairs

According to the investigators, the man commercialized data of 181,000 payment cards between 2010 and 2014. The man pleaded guilty to access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, he was also ordered to forfeit $250,000 and pay restitution that will be determined later.

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Experts found 20 Million tax records for Russian citizens exposed online

Security Affairs

“The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.” “Affected individuals could be at risk of identity theft and should monitor their accounts closely. ” continues the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

In 2010, Microsoft — in tandem with a number of security researchers — launched a combined technical and legal sneak attack on the Waledac botnet, successfully dismantling it. A screenshot of the “SevAntivir” fake antivirus or “scareware” affiliate program run by Severa.

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Scammers, profiteers, and shady sites? It must be tax season

Malwarebytes

The first snapshot promoting an online tax filing service shows up in 2010. Remember that a social security number, birth date, and a bank account number is all the information a cyber-criminal needs to perform identity theft. And the consequences of that theft can be devastating. Affiliates.