Category: identity theft

Malware writer pleads guilty to helping $568 million cybercrime ring

Post author By Randall
Post date August 2, 2020
Categories In crime, cybercrime, fastpos, gear, Hack, hacking, hacks, identity theft, infraud organization, malware, News, Tech, valerian chiochiu

[ad_1] The group was created in 2010 and became a hub for thieves hoping to buy goods with fake and stolen payment cards. It was reportedly sophisticated, with members offering automated vending sites, a screening process and even an escrow service to help complete transactions. The Justice Department counted 10,901 registered members by March 2017. […]

Russian hacker behind an elite crime forum pleads guilty to multiple charges

Post author By Randall
Post date January 27, 2020
Categories In aleksei burkov, cardplanet, cyber crime, cyber criminal, Cybersecurity, device fraud, directconnection, fraud, gear, identity theft, Internet, marketplace, membership, Politics, Russia, russian, Security, stolen data, Tech

[ad_1] Burkov was arrested in 2015 at an airport near Tel Aviv. In 2017, an Israeli district court approved his extradition to the US, but Russia fought that decision for years. As Krebs on Security points out, the Russian government may be concerned that Burkov knows too much. In late 2019, Burkov was extradited to […]

A thief took Facebook hard drives with payroll data from a worker’s car

Post author By Randall
Post date December 13, 2019
Categories In Facebook, gear, identity theft, identitytheft, payroll, Privacy, Security, Tech, theft

[ad_1] The theft took place on November 17th and Facebook noticed that the drives were missing three days later, according to Bloomberg. The company is said to have determined on November 29th that the hard drives had payroll data on them, and today began informing affected employees. The data reportedly includes employee names, banking details, […]

How a trivial cell phone hack is ruining lives

Post author By Randall
Post date June 28, 2019
Categories In 2-factor, at&t, bad password, data breach, data security, digital security, gear, Gmail, Google, identity theft, infosec, Internet, Mobile, opinion, Security, services, sim, sim swapping, sms, t-mobile, Tech, Twitter, two-factorauthentication

[ad_1] “This is still very raw (I haven’t even told my family yet),” Coonce wrote in an anguished Medium post. “I can’t stop thinking about the small, easy things I could have done to protect myself along the way.” On a Monday night in June, Matthew Miller’s daughter woke him up to say that his […]

EA patched Origin security flaws that put millions of users at risk

Post author By Randall
Post date June 26, 2019
Categories In check point research, Cyberattack, cyberint, Cybersecurity, ea, ea games, flaw, Gaming, hijack, identity theft, Internet, online gaming, origin, patch, Security, Tech, vulnerabilities, vulnerability

[ad_1] The vulnerabilities took advantage of abandoned subdomains, EA Games’ use of authentication tokens and single sign-on and TRUST mechanisms built into the user login process. Had an attack been carried out, it could have been devastating, given that EA is the world’s second largest gaming company and millions of user accounts would have been […]

Man pleads guilty to hijacking Apple IDs of rappers and sports stars

Post author By Randall
Post date March 31, 2019
Categories In Apple, apple id, crime, fraud, gear, identity theft, Internet, law, Nba, Nfl, phishing, Security, Tech
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[ad_1] Ford was indicted on six counts back in April 2018, but is only pleading guilty to one count each of computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. Sentencing is due to take place June 24th. Officials didn’t name the victims or outline the full extent of the damage. It’s not certain that Ford will face […]