SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

After weeks of denial, AT&T has finally acknowledged a massive data breach impacting 73 million current and former customer accounts. In a recent statement, AT&T confessed that the leaked data set "appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Attorney for the Western District of Texas unsealed an indictment last week that named Mark Sokolvsky as the core developer for the Raccoon Infostealer business, which was marketed on several Russian-language cybercrime forums beginning in 2019. A selfie pulled from Mark Sokolovsky’s iCloud account. According to the U.S.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 27, 2022

The improper disposal of smartphones and computers is one of the most common ways for a nefarious character to access sensitive information that can lead to identity theft. The last thing anyone wants is their passwords , account numbers, private images and the like winding up in the wrong hands.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 24, 2021

The monitoring allows you to stay on top of your credit health, spot inaccuracies and help be alerted to the early signs of identity theft so you can take steps to address them. Identity Theft Protection. Identity theft-related fraud is the fastest growing online crime in the world. That’s one in 15 people.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

This story is about the victims of a particularly aggressive business ID theft ring that’s spent years targeting small businesses across the country and is now pivoting toward using that access for pandemic assistance loans and unemployment benefits. For 2020, the company estimates an overall 258 percent spike in the crime.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 1, 2020

Joomla administrators announced that they had removed all accounts that had been inactive since before 2019, and enabled multi-factor authentication for users on the site. Leaked information included names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, and IP addresses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. FBI identified more than 50 million unique credentials and forms of identification (email addresses, bank accounts, cryptocurrency addresses, credit card numbers, etc.)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

The company speculates that leaked data are from 2019 or earlier. “The information varied by individual and account, but may have included full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, social security number, date of birth, AT&T account number and AT&T passcode.” AT&T told CNN.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2020

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest travel leisure company, discloses a data breach that took place in 2019. The company launched an investigation immediately after it discovered an anomalous activity on its network in May 2019. “In late May 2019, we identified suspicious activity on our network.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

What is Account Takeover? Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2022

conspired to hack into Yahoo email accounts belonging to victims in the United States. From there, the two allegedly would check how many of those Yahoo accounts were associated with Ring accounts, and then target people who used the same password for both accounts. . “ChumLul,” 22, of Racine, Wisc.,

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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. According to the 2019 Verizon Security Report , 34% of breaches involved internal actors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In August 2019 and August 2020, a federal grand jury announced two separate indictments charging the five Chinese nationals with facilitating theft of source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data, and valuable business information. These individuals are all present in the FBI’s most wanted list.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

file exposed information that attackers could employ for lateral movement within the ministry’s systems, potentially escalating to anything from account takeover to a ransomware attack. It was established in 2019 to diversify Saudi Arabia’s economy away from oil and gas. Meanwhile, the now-closed MIM’s env.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

Google has for years accepted requests to remove certain sensitive data such as bank account or credit card numbers from search results. Briansclub updated its homepage with this information in 2019, after it got massively hacked and a copy of its customer database was shared with this author.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. The back of the napkin math isn’t pretty.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2022

Based upon communications with the card brands, it is believed that only customers who purchased products on the website with a credit card between November 1, 2019 and August 31, 2021 may have been affected. “You should report any incidents of suspected identity theft to your local law enforcement and state Attorney General.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

who put a freeze on his credit files last year at Experian, Equifax and TransUnion after thieves tried to open multiple new payment accounts in his name using an address in Washington state that was tied to a vacant home for sale. Dune Thomas is a software engineer from Sacramento, Calif. and $24.99 and $24.99

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. which was renamed to NortonLifeLock in 2019. In January 2021, Avira was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.-based based NortonLifeLock Inc., the same company that now owns Norton 360.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Paige Thompson, former Amazon employee, stands charged of breaking into Capital One accounts and stealing the personal data of some 100 million of the company’s customers.(Photo: Attorney’s Office in Seattle, said the government added eight new charges on top of the two originally filed in August 2019. Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

billion and authorities observed an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019 (+69%). In 2020, the IC3 received 19,369 Business Email Compromise (BEC)/Email Account Compromise (EAC) complaints, these crimes caused $1.8 million in 2019 to over $29.1 ” states the post published by the FBI. billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2019, law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe announced the seizure of the popular xDedic marketplace , an underground market offering for sale access to compromised systems and personally identifiable information. The duo face charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The United Kingdom national Nathan Wyatt (39), a member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ hacking group, was extradited to the United States in December 2019. authorities on six counts of aggravated identity theft, threatening to damage a protected computer, and conspiracy. The man was charged by U.S. reads the indictment.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2021

This leaves victims of the data breaches vulnerable to identity theft. Marriott reported that the names, loyalty account information, phone numbers, birth dates and other personal details of around 5.2 million customer accounts. Here are five recent data breaches you may have missed. Small Business Administration.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

On September 30th, 2019, the financial institution began sending out data breach notifications to the impacted, the notice informed them that the former employee potentially used the data for fraudulent activities, including identity theft and financial frauds. The suspect is no longer working for the financial organization.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April 2019, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, email credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. FBI identified more than 50 million unique credentials and forms of identification (email addresses, bank accounts, cryptocurrency addresses, credit card numbers, etc.)

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

Beginning in 2019, Schrader shared his research into PACS flaws, which included the two radiology specialists. Schrader notified the specialists of the vulnerabilities and subsequent data leak in December 2019, but the lawsuit claims Northeast Radiology and Alliance did not respond.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. which was renamed to NortonLifeLock in 2019 (LifeLock is now included in the Norton 360 service). ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based based NortonLifeLock Inc. “It’s disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A year after offering free credit monitoring to all Americans on account of its massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 148 million people, Equifax now says it has chosen to extend the offer by turning to a credit monitoring service offered by a top competitor — Experian. EQUIFERIAN ® ?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts. The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. .

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

million patients affected by its nine-year data breach, first reported in 2019. In April 2019, an internal alert notified the security team of unauthorized access. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images). Insurance giant Dominion National reached a $2 million settlement with the 2.9 All branches fall under the Capital Blue Cross umbrella.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” The Elasticsearch database was first indexed by search engines in May 2018, Diachenko discovered it on September 17, 2019, and on September 20, 2019 it was secured. The experts also revealed that the owner based in Ukraine, but did not reveal its identity. ” concludes the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The author of the post claims that the data was acquired from US insurance giant Humana and includes detailed medical records of the company’s health plan members dating back to 2019. One of the forum members who downloaded the database claims that the archive contains information from 2020, and not 2019, as suggested by the leaker.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Abnormal’s Crane Hassold wrote. Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

A timeline of credit card fraud Back in 2019, three people alleged to be part of a “nationwide stolen credit card ring” were arrested in January of that same year. The gang was said to have racked up $3 million in unauthorised purchases, being charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2023

Researchers warn that such data leaks are hazardous as they might help threat actors craft targeted phishing campaigns, assist in forgery and identity theft, and trick companies into making payments. Researchers claim it is necessary to set up a separate user account for each employee who needs access to the data.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

The information varied from person to person, but may have included names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers (SSNs), health insurance information, medical record numbers, patient account numbers, dates of service and/or limited treatment information used by TGH for its business operations.

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