Chris Williams reports: Some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are on sale from today on the dark web, according to the data trove’s seller. For less than $20,000 in Bitcoin, it is claimed, the following pilfered account databases can be purchased from the Dream Market cyber-souk, located in the Tor…
Month: February 2019
Chinese bank’s software chief jailed after finding way to withdraw US$1m in ‘free’ cash from ATMs
Stephen Chen reports: Qin Qisheng, 43, a former manager in Huaxia Bank’s technology development centre in Beijing, spotted a loophole in the bank’s core operating system that meant cash withdrawals made around midnight were not recorded. The bank accepted his explanation that he had simply been trying to test its internal security and the cash…
Japenese Payment Card Fraud Contrasts with Regional Patterns – Gemini Advisory
Stas Alforov writes: Based on the proprietary Gemini Advisory telemetry data collected from various dark web sources over several years, we have determined that in 2018, nearly 1.4 million cards were compromised in the East Asia region, nearly a 100% increase from 2017. Despite the overarching trend of increased fraud in East Asia, Japanese compromised…
Users complain of account hacks, but OkCupid denies a data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: It’s bad enough that dating sites are a pit of exaggerations and inevitable disappointment, they’re also a hot target for hackers. Dating sites aren’t considered the goldmine of personal information like banks or hospitals, but they’re still an intimate part of millions of people’s lives and have long been in the sights…
Two incidents involving Texas tax preparers may have put customers at risk of ID theft
Remember when it seemed like every day we were reading about ID theft and tax refund fraud schemes involving rogue employees of tax preparation firms? Yeah, well it’s still a thing. Here’s a story about a former rogue employee at Jackson Hewitt in McKinney, Texas. If you or someone you know may have used that…
Mumsnet reports itself to regulator over data breach
Alex Hern reports: Mumsnet has reported itself to the information commissioner after a data breach resulted in users accidentally logging into the accounts of strangers. A botched upgrade to the software the forum runs on meant that for three days, if two users tried to log in at the same time, there was the possibility…