Accountability Identity Theft Passwords 
Schneier on Security
MAY 6, 2019
Enable two-factor authentication for all important accounts whenever possible. Don't reuse passwords for anything important -- and get a password manager to remember them all. Watch your credit reports and your bank accounts for suspicious activity.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The bot allowed the attackers to use the phished username, password and one-time code to log in as that employee at the real employer website. Evans, Elbadawy, Osiebo and Urban were all charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of conspiracy, and one count of aggravated identity theft.
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Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 14, 2022
A password manager can be a useful and effective tool for creating, controlling and applying complex and secure passwords, but if you don’t use it the right way, you can open yourself up to account compromise and even identity theft.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 6, 2020
A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S. info and findget[.]me,
Krebs on Security
MAY 4, 2021
When normal computer users fall into the nasty habit of recycling passwords, the result is most often some type of financial loss. Our passwords can say a lot about us, and much of what they have to say is unflattering. Interestingly, one of the more common connections involves re-using or recycling passwords across multiple accounts.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Where a traditional threat intelligence or investigations tool may provide a small number of records directly correlated to the search input, IDLink expands the pool of results to include identity data correlated across shared usernames, emails, passwords, and PII – with flexible options around pivoting depth, confidence levels, and visualization.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 19, 2023
T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts.
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