'Happiness' for Twitter Hacker Kim Zetter - Wired An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks admitted to hijacking multiple high-profile Twitter accounts. The hacker, GMZ, gained entry by pointing a password-guesser at a user's account. The user turned out to be a member of Twitter's support staff, who'd chosen the password "happiness."
Russian Hackers a Global Menace nwanews.com Almost all the targets are in the United States and Europe, where Russia's notorious hackers pilfer online bank accounts, swipe Social Security numbers, steal credit card data, and peek at email log-ins and passwords as part of what some estimate to be a $100 billion-a-year global cybercrime business.
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More Analyses of 2008 Breach Data Wednesday, January 07, 2009 pogowasright.org So how bad was 2008? Are there more incidents or are we just finding more?
Bogus LinkedIn Profiles and Malware Wednesday, January 07, 2009 theregister.co.uk Fraudulent accounts in the name of celebrities have links harboring malware.
Woman Says Drugs Spurred ID Theft Wednesday, January 07, 2009 pennlive.com Asked if drug abuse prompted an ID theft scam that bankrupted her grandparents: "Yeah, heroin."
17 Years For Selling Drugs and ID Theft Wednesday, January 07, 2009 foxbaltimore.com Paid Motor Vehicle Administration employee for false identity documents.
Price of Data Theft Response: Millions Wednesday, January 07, 2009 pressherald.mainetoday.com Report on cost of breaches at two retailers has banks looking to spread the pain.
Illegal Immigrant Guilty of ID Theft Wednesday, January 07, 2009 suburbanchicagonews.com Aguilar wanted a job. So she used someone else's Social Security number.
Holy ID theft! Victim is Bishop Wednesday, January 07, 2009 nydailynews.com Thieves swiped identity of Brooklyn's Catholic bishop in an attempted credit card scam.
Did Woman Steal Daughter's Identity? Wednesday, January 07, 2009 tbo.com With more people out of work, ID theft cases involving young children may increase.
CheckFree Warns 5 Million Customers After Hack Wednesday, January 07, 2009 Rob Douglas CheckFree is notifying more than 5 million customers after criminals took control of several of the company’s Internet domains and redirected customer traffic to a malicious Web site hosted in the Ukraine.
Illegal Immigrant Identity Thief Subject to Deportation Tuesday, January 06, 2009 Rob Douglas A Madison man who was illegally in the country since 1997 and worked seven years at a Madison motel was sentenced Monday in federal court to time served and is subject to deportation for Social Security fraud and identity theft.
States Push To Encrypt Donor and Client Info Tuesday, January 06, 2009 Rob Douglas Fred Schultz, CEO and founder of the Foundation for Positively Kids (FPK) in Las Vegas, deals with a lot of confidential information in his program for medically-dependent children. The organization stores names, addresses, medication, family information and donor credit card information.
Credit Card Fraud Factory Video Monday, January 05, 2009 Rob Douglas Kevin Poulsen over at Wired posted a great video of Detective Bob Watts of the Newport Beach Police Department demonstrating how forged credit cards are created.
Has Your Credit or Debit Card Been Skimmed? Friday, January 02, 2009 Rob Douglas Have you been a victim of credit or debit card skimming? In conjunction with a major media organization, InsideIDTheft.info is seeking victims of credit or debit card skimming. Specifically, if you live in the New York City metropolitan area and have been victimized, we would like to hear from you.
Identity Theft and Cybercrime Will Rise in 2009 Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Rob Douglas Early in 2009, InsideIDTheft.info and IdentityTheftBlog.info will demonstrate that the actual number of data breaches harming Americans is much higher than reported by organizations like the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the Identity Theft Resource Center. The methodologies used by those organizations and others are flawed and result in a significant number of breaches going unreported.
