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U.S. Indicts 2 Top Russian Hackers, Sanctions Cryptex

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The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. This batch of some five million cards put up for sale Sept.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

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The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

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. “They compound the problem by gating the recovery process with information that’s likely available or inferable from third party data brokers, or that could have been exposed in previous data breaches,” Roan said. More greatest hits from Experian: 2017: Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN.

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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

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And as we saw with Equifax’s consolidated class-action settlement in response to letting state-sponsored hackers from China steal data on nearly 150 million Americans back in 2017 , class-actions and more laughable “free credit monitoring” services from the very same companies that created the problem aren’t going to cut it.

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

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Justice Department named Rytikov as a key infrastructure provider for two Russian hackers — Vladimir Drinkman and Alexandr Kalinin — in a cybercrime spree the government called the largest known data breach at the time. “Bulletproof hosting is probably the biggest enabling service that you find in the underground.

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Scary Fraud Ensues When ID Theft & Usury Collide

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Then in mid-January, Jim heard from MSF via snail mail that they’d discovered a data breach. Jim said MSF ultimately agreed that the loan wasn’t legitimate, but they couldn’t or wouldn’t tell him how his information got pushed through to a loan — even though MSF was never able to pull his credit file.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

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The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million stolen cards; 2017 saw some 4.9 million card records for sale. But business would pick up in each of the years that followed: In 2016, BriansClub uploaded 2.89 million cards added; 2018 brought in 9.2 million more. million cards.

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