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A Light at the End of Liberty Reserve’s Demise?

Krebs on Security

In May 2013, the U.S. Federal officials charged that Liberty Reserve facilitated a “broad range of criminal activity, including credit card fraud, identity theft, investment fraud, computer hacking, child pornography, and narcotics trafficking.” Internal Revenue service finally got in touch to discuss my claim.

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Prestige reservation platform exposes millions of hotel guests

Security Affairs

Exposed data, some of which go back to 2013, include sensitive information and credit card details. The availability of such kind of data could expose hotel guests to a wide range of malicious activities, including identity theft, phishing attacks, scams, malware attacks, and reservation takeover.

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MY TAKE: How consumer-grade VPNs are enabling individuals to do DIY security

The Last Watchdog

As part of this mindset, more consumers are subscribing to a personal VPN service which they use to shield themselves from disinformation sweeps and to protect themselves from Covid 19-related hacks and scams. I first encountered consumer VPNs back in 2013, when I interviewed the founders of Hotspot Shield and TunnelBear for this news story.

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Massive Data Breach Includes Social Security Numbers, Potentially Affects Billions

SecureWorld News

The breach, which allegedly occurred in April 2024, has raised significant concerns about data security and identity theft risks. The scale of this breach, if confirmed, would rival or exceed other notorious data breaches in history, such as the 2013 Yahoo breach that affected an estimated 3 billion accounts.

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Infamous dark net carding site UniCC to close

Malwarebytes

UniCC opened shop in 2013, and specialized in credit card fraud and the sale of card details to criminals, collectively called carding. Such details can also be resold for cash, used in identity theft or the making of a synthetic identity, or used to further cash out cryptocurrencies gained from other online crimes.

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Lithuanian man sentenced to 5 years in prison for stealing $120 Million From Google, Facebook

Security Affairs

Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years of prison for stealing $120 Million from Google and Facebook employees with business email compromise (BEC) attacks carried out between 2013 and 2015. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and three counts of money laundering. ” .

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Data Breach: Millions of Phone Numbers, Recordings, and Call Logs Compromised in Ringostat Data Leak

Security Affairs

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. Identity Theft: Leaked personally identifiable information (PIIs) can be used to access accounts on other websites, leading to further information leaks and outright identity theft. The leak has since been secured. What’s Happening?