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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

November 14, 2024 admin 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, aleksandr ermakov, chronopay, data breaches, dmitri golubov, Helkern, Home Depot breach, hydra market, mikemike, mikhail lenin, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pavel vrublevsky, peter vrublevsky, Pharma Wars, sprut, sugar ransomware, target breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:45:32 +0000

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator, the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. Moscow resident Mikhail Shefel, who confirmed using the Rescator identity in a recent interview, also admitted reaching out because he is broke and seeking publicity for several new money making schemes.

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Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

October 30, 2024 admin alphv, anthem inc., blackcat, data breaches, Equifax, Experian, hipaa journal, idx, Latest Warnings, ransomhub, sen. mark warner, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Coming Storm, TransUnion, u.s. department of health and human resources, united health group

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:34:08 +0000

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information.

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Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach

October 18, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, CrowdStrike, data breaches, equation corp, FBI, hackread, infragard, Intel 471, national public data, Ne'er-Do-Well News, netsec, RaidForums, tecmundo, tv globo, usdod

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:33:51 +0000

Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “USDoD,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population.

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National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords

August 19, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, atlas data privacy corp., Breadcrumbs, creationnext, data breaches, national public data breach, npd.pentester.com, npdbreach.com, salvatore verini, The Coming Storm, usinfosearch.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:23:31 +0000

New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available for download from its homepage until today.

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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

August 15, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, atlas data privacy corp., data breaches, FBI, HaveIBeenPwned.com, infragard, instant checkmate, jerico pictures, national criminal data llc, national public data breach, peopleconnect, recordscheck.net, sal verini, salvatore verini, shadowglade llc, sxul, The Coming Storm, trinity entertainment, Troy Hunt, truthfinder, twisted history llc, usdod, vx-underground

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 22:38:36 +0000

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida.

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Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms

August 5, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, amerisourcebergen corporation, Bleeping Computer, brett stone-gross, cencora, dark angels, data breaches, dunghill leak, ransomware, SABRE, Sophos, sysco, threatlabz, zscaler

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 19:52:35 +0000

A ransomware group called Dark Angels made headlines this past week when it was revealed the crime group recently received a record $75 million data ransom payment from a Fortune 50 company. Security experts say the Dark Angels have been around since 2021, but the group doesn’t get much press because they work alone and maintain a low profile, picking one target at a time and favoring mass data theft over disrupting the victim’s operations.

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TracFone will pay $16 million to settle FCC data breach investigation

July 24, 2024 admin data breaches, FCC, news, privacy, TracFone

Prepay wireless provider TracFone has been slapped on the wrist to the tune of $16 million for insufficient customer data protection

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Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks

July 15, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, data breaches, google domains, Latest Warnings, metamask, paradigm, Squarespace, taylor monahan, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:24:46 +0000

At least a dozen organizations with domain names at domain registrar Squarespace saw their websites hijacked last week. Squarespace bought all assets of Google Domains a year ago, but many customers still haven’t set up their new accounts. Experts say malicious hackers learned they could commandeer any migrated Squarespace accounts that hadn’t yet been registered, merely by supplying an email address tied to an existing domain.

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