The Argus Leader reports: A former Citibank employee accused of stealing customers’ identities has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Terri Jo Huber, 43, of Sioux Falls, was indicted on nine fraud-related counts in August, including bank fraud, identity theft, access device fraud and embezzlement.
Month: January 2014
Georgia man indicted in inmate identity theft scheme
Associated Press reports that Qadir Shabazz of Atlanta has been indicted by a grand jury on charges he used prisoners’ personal information in a nationwide ID theft scheme involving fraudulent tax returns. Officials say Shabazz and co-conspirators operated a business named “Indigent Inmate” and distributed information to prisoners in facilities across the country. Inmates were…
MMMOOO Hacked & 86,369 User Credentials Leaked
Today a group of hackers going by the name hitlersec have been announcing some breaches and one of the is MMMOOO (https://www.immmooo.com/en/). MMMOOO is a website owned and operated by Shanghai Jibiao Info Tech Co., Ltd, and is a mobile phone application aimed at the Chinese market. MMMOOO.com sites matrix and MMMOOO brand are hosted by…
Skype Blog Breached By Syrian Electronic Army
Today the Syrian Electronic Army who started of 2014 with a bang with Skype. The incident appears to be isolated to a single bloggers account for Skype, Shana Pearlman aka @ShanaBP who is the content marketing manager at Skype (https://blogs.skype.com/author/shanabp/). Twitter user @Ihazcandy has pointed out a interesting fact that the tweets used to announce the…
UK: 800 NHS data breaches in five years
There have been more than 800 incidents of data loss by health boards in the last five years, new figures have revealed. They include patient notes being found in public places within NHS buildings, documents left in car parks and public transport, and personal information being sent to the wrong address. Figures obtained by the…
Alleged Snapchat hackers explain how and why they leaked data on 4.6 million accounts
Chris Ziegler reports: The individual or team claiming responsibility for SnapchatDB has responded to The Verge‘s requests for comment the morning after the database went online, containing a leaked collection of some 4.6 million apparent Snapchat usernames and partial phone numbers. “Our motivation behind the release was to raise the public awareness around the issue, and also put…