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Tag Archives: identity theft
The phone went dark, then $1m was sucked out in SIM-swap crypto-heist
A Silicon Valley exec lost $1m in cryptocoin savings when a 21-year-old allegedly SIM-swapped his phone.
Former high school teacher pleads guilty to hacking celebrities
A fifth man has pleaded guilty to federal charges of phishing celebrities’ and non-celebrities logins and raiding their iCloud accounts for nude photos.
Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were fake
New York has expanded its probe to subpoena 14 industry groups and lobbyists, saying that fake comments “distort[ed] public opinion.”
35 million US voter records up for sale on the dark web
He or she is selling off the databases by state. Kansas’s voter database has already been sold and published, and Oregon is next up for sale.
Robocallers slapped with huge fines for using spoofed phone numbers
One poor woman whose phone number was hijacked by robocallers got several calls a day from irate consumers who thought she was trying to market to them.
Street gang members indicted for stealing POS terminals
…and using the credit card terminals to allegedly issue themselves fraudulent returns and to steal taxpayer IDs and bank info.
Former NASA contractor arrested on charges of sextorting seven women
Richard Gregory Bauer allegedly weaseled private information out of the women on Facebook by pretending to be working on a class project.
Immigrant identity thief and ICE lawyer gets four years
A former high-ranking lawyer at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is going to jail for four years after stealing the identities of US immigrants.
2 million stolen identities used to make fake net neutrality comments
Most crucially, two of those identities were senators who are now demanding the FCC find out who’s behind the bots and the identity theft.