Australia has ordered an Australian national, David Kee Crees, extradited to the U.S., where he faces 22 counts involving hacking, fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Two of Crees’ better-known aliases were “Abdilo” and “DR32.” “Abdilo” DataBreaches started reporting on Crees in 2015 when he was known to this site as “Abdilo.” At the time, he…
Category: Of Note
New changes allow Optus data leak victims to change licence numbers
Nick Pearson reports: State governments have begun announcing special changes to allow people exposed in the Optus data leak to get new driver’s licences as soon as possible. Among the details accessed by the hacker are driver’s licence numbers, which are commonly used to verify someone’s identity. NSW Customer Services Minister Victor Dominello said people in the state can get…
Change of Heart? OptusData says they won’t leak or sell more data
After leaking more than 10,000 records from Optus earlier today, “OptusData” appears to have had a change of heart. Their original post was deleted and one hour ago, they posted: Optus Data will not be sold or leaked Too many eyes. We will not sale data to anyone. We cant if we even want to:…
Correction
On September 20, DataBreaches published a post about an alleged hack of Ask.FM data from what was described as a March, 2020 hack. Ask.FM had not replied to this site’s inquiries by the time of publication. Ask.FM replied today and reminded me that they had addressed this same claimed hack in December 2021 when this…
Morgan Stanley to pay $35 million fee for ‘astonishing’ customer data disposal practices
Jonathan Greig reports: Morgan Stanley will pay a $35 million penalty to settle charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for wide-ranging failures around properly disposing of hard drives and servers containing the personal information of some 15 million customers. The company did not respond to requests for comment, but the SEC said in…
SIM Swapper Abducted, Beaten, Held for $200k Ransom
Brian Krebs reports: A Florida teenager who served as a lackey for a cybercriminal group that specializes in cryptocurrency thefts was beaten and kidnapped last week by a rival cybercrime gang. The teen’s captives held guns to his head while forcing him to record a video message pleading with his crew to fork over a…