Collaborate Disseminate
Christina Warren was about 12 years old when she started receiving credit card bills. After that, she started getting collection notices. It was at that point that her parents had to convince the creditors that their daughter’s identity had been stolen. Continue reading Babies’ data being sold to tax fraudsters on the dark web
A federal district court in California has ordered Coinbase to turn over three years worth of identifying records on more than 14,000 of its customers to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Continue reading Coinbase ordered to turn over customer records to IRS
A judge has ordered digital currency broker Coinbase to hand over the details of 14,355 users to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Filed on 28 November with the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, the court order (PDF) demands… Continue reading Coinbase Ordered to Hand Over Details of 14,355 Users to the IRS
The exchange lost a legal battle and now Bitcoin’s tax problem is coming to a head. Continue reading Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Cryptocurrency Traders to the IRS
KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful of static details about a person that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground, such as name, date of birth, and Social Security Number. Perhaps the most eye-opening example of this is on display at fafsa.ed.gov, the Web site set up by the U.S. Department of Education for anyone interested in applying for federal student financial aid. Continue reading Name+DOB+SSN=FAFSA Data Gold Mine
KrebsOnSecurity has sought to call attention to online services which expose sensitive consumer data if the user knows a handful of static details about a person that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground, such as name, date of birth, and Social Security Number. Perhaps the most eye-opening example of this is on display at fafsa.ed.gov, the Web site set up by the U.S. Department of Education for anyone interested in applying for federal student financial aid. Continue reading Name+DOB+SSN=FAFSA Data Gold Mine
His gang exploited teenagers, prison inmates and serving US soldiers amongst others Continue reading ID theft puppet master convicted of huge tax refund scam
Live from BSides Calgary in Alberta, Canada, here’s this week’s Chet Chat podcast…
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American’s should “assume their data is already in the hands of criminals and ‘act accordingly.’”
Continue reading IRS chief: assume your identity has been stolen
Maybe you’ve been feeling left out because you weren’t among the lucky few hundred million or billion who had their personal information stolen in either the Equifax or Yahoo! breaches. Well buck up, camper: Both companies took steps to make you feel better today.
Yahoo! announced that, our bad!: It wasn’t just one billion users who had their account information filched in its record-breaking 2013 data breach. It was more like three billion (read: all) users. Meanwhile, big three credit bureau Equifax added 2.5 million more victims to its roster of 143 million Americans who had their Social Security numbers and other personal data filched in a breach earlier this year. At the same time, Equifax’s erstwhile CEO informed Congress that the breach was the result of even more bone-headed security than was first disclosed.
To those still feeling left out by either company after this spate of news, I have only one thing to say (although I feel a bit like a broken record in repeating this): Assume you’re compromised, and take steps accordingly. Continue reading Fear Not: You, Too, Are a Cybercrime Victim!