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Category: ID Theft

Feds Charge Alleged ‘TLO’ Underground Data Broker

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports: This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Authorities charged a man from Baltimore on Monday with allegedly running a so-called TLO data service, a tool that makes it incredibly easy for hackers and other criminals to dox nearly anyone in America quickly and…

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Sébastien Raoult sentenced in federal court; could be out in less than 11 months

Posted on January 9, 2024December 6, 2024 by Dissent

Earlier today,  French natural Sébastien Raoult learned his sentence in federal court in Seattle. Raoult, aka “Sezyo,” had been detained in Morocco as he prepared to fly home to France after a vacation. His detention in response to a Red Notice led to an intense extradition fight. Raoult’s counsel urged France to request Raoult be…

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Ukrainian gets 8-year sentence for running marketplace for Americans’ data

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Dissent

Daryna Antoniuk reports: A Ukrainian citizen was sentenced to eight years in U.S. prison for administering a marketplace that sold the personal information of millions of Americans. Vitalii Chychasov, 37, was arrested in March of last year while attempting to enter Hungary and was later extradited to the U.S. Chychasov previously agreed to forfeit $5 million in…

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ID Theft Service Resold Access to USInfoSearch Data

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the U.S. consumer data broker USinfoSearch, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Since at least February 2023, a service advertised on Telegram called USiSLookups has operated an automated bot that allows anyone to look…

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Attorney General James Warns New Yorkers Impacted by Medical Company’s Data Breach of Potential Identity Theft

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Dissent

November 28 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today warned New Yorkers impacted by a data breach at a medical transcription company, Perry Johnson & Associates, to take action to prevent potential identity theft. The company experienced a data breach affecting nearly nine million patients, including approximately four million New Yorkers in…

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A Hacker Faked His Own Death–Then Claimed To Have Sold Marriott Customer Data To Russians, FBI Says

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Dissent

Thomas Brewster reports: A hacker told the FBI earlier this year that he sold access to the personal data of Marriott hotel customers on a Russian forum, according to a search warrant obtained by Forbes. He also hacked into a number of U.S. state death certificate registration agencies in an effort to fake his own demise,…

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