It was a well-oiled business, with Top Dogs fencing devices, forgers cooking up fake IDs with stolen PII, and runners ripping off phones.
Tag Archives: Data loss
ATM skimming crook behind bars after draining bank accounts for 2 years
A multi-state ATM card-skimming spree netted his gang over $800k from 531 people’s bank accounts.
Flipboard data breach – what users should do now
Hugely popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach.
New Zealand’s “hacked” budget was found on a website
Police close their investigation, concluding that New Zealand’s “wellbeing” budget wasn’t hacked.
What a teen grade hacker’s confession can teach us
“We had access to the grade book. Now we could change the grades.”
Millions of Canva users’ data stolen as GnosticPlayers strikes again
The initial breach notification was topped with marketing fluff: an unfortunate choice, given what could be the resulting glazed eyeballs.
Hackers breach US license plate scanning company
One of the US’s most widely used vehicle license plate reader (LPR) companies, Perceptics, is reportedly investigating a data breach.
Rats leave the sinking ship as hackers’ forum gets hacked
The OGUsers forum, which trades in hijacked social accounts, has been hacked, its hard drives wiped, and its user database published online.
Two people indicted for massive Anthem health data breach
They’re part of a gang that spearphished millions of records out of the health insurer and other businesses, the DOJ says.
275m personal records swiped from exposed MongoDB database
Records included not only the individuals’ name and email address but also their employment history, salary, and phone number.