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Misconfigured WBSC server leaks thousands of passports

Security Affairs

The WBSC, headquartered in Switzerland, was established in 2013 and currently has 141 countries as members located in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. According to the team, having passport data exposed puts individuals at risk of identity theft. Direct financial loss is also a possible risk.

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A Light at the End of Liberty Reserve’s Demise?

Krebs on Security

In May 2013, the U.S. Federal officials charged that Liberty Reserve facilitated a “broad range of criminal activity, including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography, and narcotics trafficking.”

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How to Secure Your Business Social Media Accounts

BH Consulting

Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help. Recently, a client with several different social media accounts and a large team of people working on them approached BH Consulting to review its security and policies around them. More than 4.7

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Data Breach: Millions of Phone Numbers, Recordings, and Call Logs Compromised in Ringostat Data Leak

Security Affairs

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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Lithuanian man sentenced to 5 years in prison for stealing $120 Million From Google, Facebook

Security Affairs

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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350 million decrypted email addresses left exposed on an unsecured server

Security Affairs

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. Watch out for potential spam messages and phishing emails. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days.

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Top 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Data Breaches in 2023

Security Boulevard

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. A lack of security features to upgrade or downgrade a user may result in mismanagement of user accounts.