In Part II of his latest investigative series, Brian Krebs reports:
The same miscreants responsible for breaking into the networks of America’s top consumer and business data brokers appear to have also infiltrated and stolen huge amounts of data from the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), a congressionally-funded non-profit organization that provides training, investigative support and research to agencies and entities involved in the prevention, investigation and prosecution of cybercrime.
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The bad guys in this case also appear to have used their access to the NW3C to break into and steal 10 years’ worth of consumer complaint information from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the aforementioned partnership between the NW3C and the FBI that tracks complaints about cybercrime.
Present on the attacker’s server are some 2.659 million records apparently lifted from the IC3. The records range in date from about the time of the IC3′s inception — May 8, 2000 — to Jan. 22, 2013.
Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. If you missed Part I of his series, do read it here.