Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S. info and findget[.]me,

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Accountability Identity Theft Hacking Insurance 337

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 18, 2022

UniCC opened shop in 2013, and specialized in credit card fraud and the sale of card details to criminals, collectively called carding. Such details can also be resold for cash, used in identity theft or the making of a synthetic identity, or used to further cash out cryptocurrencies gained from other online crimes.

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Marketing Cryptocurrency Identity Theft DDOS 109

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years of prison for stealing $120 Million from Google and Facebook employees with business email compromise (BEC) attacks carried out between 2013 and 2015. He used multiple bank accounts at banks from Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Latvia to receive the fraudulent payments.

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Identity Theft Banking Advertising Accountability 67

Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. Identity Theft: Leaked personally identifiable information (PIIs) can be used to access accounts on other websites, leading to further information leaks and outright identity theft. The leak has since been secured.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for as many of your online accounts as possible. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

Experian, 2013 – 2015: Hackers stole a trove of information from T-Mobile customers whose data had passed through Experian to check credit there and open a new account. Use a VPN that you pay for: Having a VPN can make it much harder to steal your data and prevent identity theft.

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Risk Identity Theft Data breaches VPN 218

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As a result, all 143 million US victims are at greater risk of identity theft, and will remain at risk for years to come. And those who suffer identify theft will have problems for months, if not years, as they work to clean up their name and credit rating. The company's incident response after the breach was similarly damaging.

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Computers and Electronics Identity Theft Internet Internet 207

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address.

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Accountability Authentication Passwords Identity Theft 280

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Mismanagement of user accounts – using admin privileges to upgrade user access may result in a data breach for personal profit or copying files with customer information. A lack of security features to upgrade or downgrade a user may result in mismanagement of user accounts. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Now think about the type of data you enter when you create a new account on a website. This is valuable personal data that can be used for anything from targeted advertising to identity theft in extreme cases. You are often required to provide your email address, date of birth, first and last name, and a password.

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Backups Passwords Identity Theft Malware 98

Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

In a world in which all databases — including hacker forums — are eventually compromised and leaked online, it can be tough for cybercriminals to maintain their anonymity if they’re in the habit of re-using the same unusual passwords across multiple accounts associated with different email addresses.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Identity theft is the number one crime in America, a crime that claims an average of more than a million new victims every 30 days. Earlier this month, a firm called Javelin Strategy and Research released its annual Identity Theft Fraud Report. On the other hand, account takeovers went up.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2021

For example, in my friend’s case Bill’s tool said his mid-700s score could be better if the proportion of balances to credit limits was lower, and if he didn’t owe so much on revolving credit accounts. “Too many consumer finance company accounts,” the API concluded about my friend’s score.

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Insurance Identity Theft Accountability Technology 348

The Last Watchdog

JULY 18, 2022

Cybercrime statistics from Dataprot states that 60 million Americans have experienced identity theft, highlighting the importance of destroying data completely. It isn’t simply a matter of data security. A data breach will cost a company vital revenue and client trust. Destruction options.

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Cybercrime Identity Theft Data breaches Risk 211

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Going deep into the incident, it’s revealed that hackers infiltrated a database storing archived personal information related to National Genetic Testing Organization, now a part of DDC since 2013. DDC has notified those who were affected by the cyber incident.

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Identity Theft Big data Cyber Attacks Accountability 90

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Hackers can publish their findings under an anonymous account on a popular social media platform or another public-facing channel. Personal details about users – whether inadvertently available on social media or through a data breach on a long inactive account – are everywhere, giving persistent threat actors plenty to utilize.

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Data breaches Media Accountability Passwords 121

Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The motion picture acquisition agreements, tax ID requests, and contract addendum scans all date between 2013 and 2016. While IndieFlix believes that the bucket has been publicly accessible since May 2015, the company has not found any suspicious activity or unauthorized access attempts to any of its accounts during the period.

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Identity Theft Accountability Advertising Marketing 58

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

In 2013, for example, the FIDO Alliance was created to solve the world’s password problem by replacing login technology. The account recovery element of passkey is another double-edged sword. They convert the data into templates that, even if leaked or breached, cannot be used to hack an account.

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Passwords Password Management Authentication Technology 112

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In April 2013, I received via U.S. When I first encountered now-31-year-old Sergei “Fly,” “Flycracker,” “MUXACC” Vovnenko in 2013, he was the administrator of the fraud forum “thecc[dot]bz,” an exclusive and closely guarded Russian language board dedicated to financial fraud and identity theft.

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Cybercrime Identity Theft Accountability Passwords 207

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. accounts (59% of common email addresses had exactly the same password). <just deleted account> Would never have known if not for your eagle eyes and #totallyawesome service. +10 And so Have I Been Pwned was born. 10 — ???ll??

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Data breaches Passwords InfoSec Accountability 279

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. banks using the Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert money to Eastern Europe.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

Burkov, 29, admitted to running CardPlanet , a site that sold more than 150,000 stolen credit card accounts, and to being the founder and administrator of DirectConnection — a closely guarded underground community that attracted some of the world’s most-wanted Russian hackers.

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