Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This prolonged season of online shopping (and stress) will provide ample opportunity for phishers, smishers, vishers and identity thieves to pilfer your valuable personal and/or payment information. Here are 50 ways to avoid getting scammed on Black Friday — and beyond. Report scams. Choose credit over debit.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.”

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Identity Theft Scams Advertising Risk 105

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. 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. These are eminently complex times.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our researchers found that the letters are dated between 2016 and 2021. Risk of plate cloning While the leaked parking permits are no longer valid, malicious actors could use the exposed data for identity theft and to craft spear phishing attacks. Researchers contacted MTC, and public access to the data was closed.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

According to court documents, Igwilo was charged in 2016 in the US District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston, Texas for “one count of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of aggravated identity theft.” pic.twitter.com/iLTWuQ98MO — U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

Charges include “wire fraud and aggravated identity theft”. This particular scheme had been rumbling along since “at least” 2016, and the accused individual worked in the publishing industry. Once they logged in, credentials were forwarded on to add another string in the “massive scam” bow. Throwing the book at crime.

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