Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

Equifax, 2017: A data breach impacted almost 150 million Equifax customers, who subsequently reported identity-related crimes using that data. 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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Adam Levin

MARCH 27, 2019

million survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria as well as the 2017 California wildfires to an unspecified contractor. million disaster survivors at increased risk of identity theft and fraud. FEMA’s failure…. has placed approximately 2.3

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

since 2017. Chapman faces charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, identity fraud, money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, and unlawful employment of aliens. sanctions and bankroll its weapons programs,” said Sue J.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

million exposed files, over a million of these files are resumes sent to the station over a period ranging from 2017 to 2024. Stolen resumes are bad news, as they can be used for financial fraud, identity theft, and cause privacy issues. In this case, the bucket stored over 1.8 What do I need to do?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Here’s the introduction from that message: “We recently sent you an email advising you that, until further notice, we would be extending the free TrustedID ® Premier subscription you enrolled in following the September 7, 2017 cybersecurity incident.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2019

Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. – Help with ongoing identity theft issues: Up to seven years of “free assisted identity restoration services.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2018

Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. million customer accounts. Update, 7:40 p.m.:

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Adam Levin

JULY 22, 2019

Equifax has reached a settlement for the 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and personal information of nearly 150 million people. The proposed deal with the U.S. 175 million of the proposed fine would be paid to U.S. states and $100 million to the CFPB in civil penalties.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

A freeze makes it much harder for identity thieves to open new lines of credit in your name. In the wake of Equifax’s epic 2017 data breach impacting some 148 million Americans, many people did freeze their credit files at the big three in response. Consumers in every U.S. But Equifax has changed a few things since then.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 31, 2023

31 , 2023 – IDIQ ®, a leader in financial and identity protection, today announced it has joined the board of the Cyber Center of Excellence (CCOE), a San Diego-based nonprofit dedicated to growing the regional cyber economy and creating a more secure digital community for all. Scheumack began his career serving in the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. But many Norton users complain the mining program is difficult to remove, and reactions from longtime customers have ranged from unease and disbelief to, “Dude, where’s my crypto?” ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2017, KrebsOnSecurity showed how easy it is for identity thieves to undo a consumer’s request to freeze their credit file at Experian , one of the big three consumer credit bureaus in the United States. It’s also amazing that this sloppy security I wrote about back in 2017 is still just as prevalent in 2021.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2018

banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM Bank , a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. based ICBA Bancard Inc.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

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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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Hermann’s deep expertise in identity theft protection, credit and financial education and leveraging data to implement scalable business solutions will immediately benefit Entryway as the organization works to create efficiencies through data collection to serve a greater number of at-risk individuals and families across all of its program markets.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3 Mellen: This deal seems to be betting on the importance of offering a consolidated consumer security portfolio that incorporates identity theft protection, antivirus, and other security tools like VPNs. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The creator of the infamous Kelihos Botnet , Peter Yuryevich Levashov (38) pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. Yuryevich Levashov (38), the botmaster of the dreaded Kelihos Botnet pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

We have no evidence to suggest your information has been misused for purposes of fraud or identity theft as a result of this incident – and no reason to believe that it will be.” FOREVER 21 is offering a complimentary 12-month membership of Experian’s® IdentityWorks℠ identity protection service.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Estonian sues Gemalto for 152 million euros following the security flaws in the citizen ID cards issued by the company that caused their recall in 2017. Estonian authorities sue the security firm Gemalto for 152 million euros following the security flaws in the citizen ID cards issued by the company that caused their recall in 2017.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

authorities on six counts of aggravated identity theft, threatening to damage a protected computer, and conspiracy. ” According to the 2017 indictment , Wyatt used email and telephone accounts to send messages used to threaten the hacked companies of releasing their information. “a. The man was charged by U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 12, 2021

If that trend continues, or even if there is only an average of 141 new compromises per month for the next six months, the total will still exceed the previous high of 1,632 breaches set in 2017. These were among the findings of the nonprofit. The post Phishing, Ransomware Driving Wave of Data Breaches appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 22, 2021

86 on the list for an outstanding 251% growth between 2017 and 2019. IDIQ offers the IdentityIQ® and MyScoreIQ® brands for credit report and identity theft monitoring and the DataBreachIQ® brand for business data breach preparation and response support. Born of the annual Inc. IDIQ earned the rank of No. based company.”.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Lithuanian citizen Evaldas Rimasauskas (48) was arrested in March 2017 by local authorities. In 2017, the US Law enforcement requested the arrest because the man has stolen by the two IT giants a huge amount of money by posing as large Asia-based hardware vendor Quanta Computer Inc. ” .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the year 2017, Equifax experienced a massive data breach leading to the leak of social security numbers, DOBs, addresses, contact info, and other details of nearly 150 million people. And those who experienced agony while remediating identity thefts or info misuse will be paid an amount not exceeding $20,000 per consumer.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2019

authorities on six counts of aggravated identity theft, threatening to damage a protected computer, and conspiracy. “ The indictment provides details about the criminal activities conducted by Wyatt from February 2016 to June 2017. The man, Nathan Wyatt, 39, has been charged by U.S.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2022

which was a T-Mobile store, in Los Angeles in January 2017. mandatory two years in federal prison for aggravated identity theft. mandatory two years in federal prison for aggravated identity theft. Court documents show that Khudaverdyan and another business partner owned a store called Top Tier Solutions Inc.,

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few days after that April 2021 story, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that an Experian API was exposing the credit scores of most Americans.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

US DoJ charged the men with damaging protected computers, conspiracy to conduct computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

” The company is offering free identity theft and credit monitoring services to the impacted individuals, it is also reimbursing those who need to replace their government ID due to the incident. In December 2017, Nissan Finance Canada was hacked , personal information of 1.13

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

T-Mobile offers two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services to impacted customers. In 2017, hackers stole some personal information belonging to T-Mobile customers by exploiting a well-known vulnerability. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first data breach suffered by T-Mobile in the past years.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2021

Levashev used the pseudonym of “Severa” until his arrest in Spain in 2017. Levashov pleaded guilty in September 2018 to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. The creator of the Kelihos Botnet , Peter Yuryevich Levashov (40), was sentenced to 33 months, time served, and three years of supervised release.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In December 2017, PhishLabs estimated that a quarter of all phishing Web sites were outfitting their scam pages with SSL certificates to make them appear more trustworthy. If not, talk with them about what this entails and how it can help ward off identity theft. That percentage has almost certainly increased a year later.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 24, 2021

Additionally, Johnson, from 2014 through 2017, stole and sold nearly 90,000 additional (non-UPMC) sets of PII to buyers on dark web forums, which could be used to commit identity theft and bank fraud. The scheme resulted in approximately $1.7 million in false tax return refunds.".

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

indictment in December that accused two Chinese nationals of identity theft and fraud. Even is HPE has been hacked multiple times since 2010, most of the hack occurred between 2015 and 2017. .” reads a report published by the Reuters agency. “The hacking campaign, known as “ Cloud Hopper ,” was the subject of a U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The back is also providing impacted customers with a complimentary year subscription to a credit monitoring and identity theft protection service provided by Identity Guard. After the data breach, HSBC Bank enhanced the authentication process for HSBC Personal Internet Banking, adding an extra layer of security.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2018

3, 2017 and Jan. 3, 2017 and Jan. ” The company is recommending customers to enrol in the identity protection services they are providing. The restaurant chain Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen suffered a payment card breach, hackers hacked the company network between Nov. 2, 2018 and stole customer payment card data.

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