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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

Krebs on Security

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 13, 2012, after a state IT contractor clicked a malicious link in an email.

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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. “Then I used the same vulnerability to hack other websites. Secret Service.

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Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin sentenced to 88 months in prison

Security Affairs

Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012.

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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

What it boils down to is in August 2021, someone with a proven history of breaching large organisations posted what they claimed were 70 million AT&T records to a popular hacking forum and asked for a very large amount of money should anyone wish to purchase the data. It is undoubtedly in the hands of thousands of internet randos.

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Tank, the leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, was arrested by the Swiss police

Security Affairs

“The US authorities accuse the prosecuted person of extortion, bank fraud, and identity theft, among other things. In 2012, the Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was accused of being a member of a cybercrime gang known as JabberZeus Crew. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zeus). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach: Turkish legal advising company exposed over 15,000 clients

Security Affairs

Inova has been operating since 2012 and has handled thousands of cases since then. Identity theft. With large amounts of identity information being leaked about the clients in this breach, criminals can use it for identity theft. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Data Breach). Original post: [link].

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Alleged FruitFly malware creator ruled incompetent to stand trial

Malwarebytes

In 2012, as a senior soon to graduate with a physics degree, he worked on a project with faculty member Robert W. He was rumored to have hacked into his high school’s computer system, although those rumors were never confirmed. Brown regarding nanoparticle behavior, assisting with software to visualize the behavior in 3D.

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