The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. The configuration issue made this access point publicly available on the Internet. This was not a sophisticated attack.

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Mobile Data breaches Authentication Accountability 306

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

The attack first came to light on a Twitter account @ und0xxed that rolled out details of the breach. Someone on the und0xxed Twitter account told Krebs on Security that T-Mobile USA prepaid and postpaid customers were impacted by the breach. Hackers Get In Via GSSN. The data was taken from two T-Mobile data centers.

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Data breaches Mobile Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft 107

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Doxing is a term that first originated alongside the boom of the internet and black hat culture. Hackers can publish their findings under an anonymous account on a popular social media platform or another public-facing channel. In addition to popular websites, users must also consider data breaches and existing digital accounts.

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Data breaches Media Accountability Passwords 124

Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2021

In September 2018, the Russian citizen was extradited to the United States from Georgia, the man was charged over the massive theft of customer data from JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones. Some of the other organizations targeted by the gang are E*Trade, Scottrade, and the Wall Street Journal. “In addition to the U.S.

Marketing 81

Marketing Hacking Identity Theft Banking 81

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. 1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Leaked data contained information about more than 15,000 clients of Inova, people who had accidents and hired Inova between the start of 2018 and end of summer 2020. Identity theft. With large amounts of identity information being leaked about the clients in this breach, criminals can use it for identity theft.

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Data breaches Insurance Identity Theft Education 89

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. Internet of Things, or IoT devices, already represent a mature technological industry. households had an estimated 11 internet-connected devices per household.

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IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130

SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there are 36 cybercrime categories. Here is how we (CSN) define cybercrime: the kind of crime that is only happening because the internet exists [such as ransomware and DDoS attacks]. But what is the definition of cybercrime at a high level? billion in victim losses.

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Cybercrime Scams Small Business Identity Theft 54

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, one website offered users to obtain a COVID vaccination certificate by entering their British National Health Service (NHS) account credentials. The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit. Others offered the coveted Green Pass without vaccination.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 95

Webroot

JANUARY 20, 2021

In this Employee Spotlight, we talk to Account Development Executive, Jordan Gray, who works with C-level executives to integrate threat intelligence solutions within their environments. In 2018, I was looking for a career change away from insurance. How have malicious threats evolved since the early days of the internet to now?

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Artificial Intelligence Marketing Identity Theft Cyber threats 43

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

According to the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report : … Rates of successful breaches have reached an all-time high for both mid-sized and enterprise class organizations, with more than two-thirds (67%) of global organizations and nearly three fourths (71%) in the U.S. The Threat Level Is Rising. having been breached at some point in the past.

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Risk Digital transformation IoT Identity Theft 48

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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