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Alleged mastermind behind $20m stolen-card site extradited to US
Aleksei Burkov allegedly ran Cardplanet, advertised as the only shop with a guarantee: your stolen card will work, or you get a new one!
GPS tracker from stalked woman’s car led to indictment of 20 mobsters
Girlfriend found it, girlfriend popped it onto a city bus, gadget got found, multiyear investigation got launched, 20 got indicted.
Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted
The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.
Hacking gang stole millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swaps
Six alleged members of “The Community” were indicted, along with three phone service employees who allegedly helped target subscribers.
Secret Service busts online car sales crime ring
They posed as military needing to offload cars before deployment, allegedly posting bogus ads on Craigslist, eBay, and AutoTrader.
Two charged with hacking company filings out of SEC’s EDGAR system
They’re charged with phishing and inflicting malware to get into the EDGAR filing system, stealing thousands of filings, and selling access.
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.
Twitter shutters accounts linked to US election hacking
The move comes after special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russians believed to have used the accounts as fronts in US election hacking.
Three women indicted for allegedly stealing identities from people’s passports
The three allegedly cooked up counterfeit documents and got others to borrow money to buy iPhones, iPads and other gadgets.