Michael J. Moore reports: Morgan Stanley (MS) fired an employee it said stole data, including account numbers, for as many as 350,000 wealth-management clients and posted some of the information online. The bank alerted law enforcement and found no evidence that clients lost any money, New York-based Morgan Stanley said today in a statement. The firm…
Category: Of Note
Feds still unraveling extent of tax fraud in Miami Dade College student accounts
Jay Weaver reports: A tipster walked into the FBI’s South Florida office a few years ago to complain that young cyber criminals in the North Miami area were using something called a “key” in street lingo to steal people’s identities. That key, FBI agents would soon figure out, was really a combination of names, birth…
Verifying leaks uncovers “fake leaks”
Posted by @Cyber_War_News to Pastebin today: Today has been interesting, to say the least. Skipping all the bullshit lets get right to the main stinky shit. Anonymous twitter user @AnonymousGlobo announced earlier today this: https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/547426305151860736 https://twitter.com/AnonymousGlobo/status/548537460691857408 Now after working with data leaks for years now it became clearly obvious to me that this was fake….
FBI warned Year Ago of impending Malware Attacks—But Didn’t Share Info with Sony
Jana Winter reports: Nearly one year before Sony was hacked, the FBI warned that U.S. companies were facing potentially crippling data destruction malware attacks, and predicted that such a hack could cause irreparable harm to a firm’s reputation, or even spell the end of the company entirely. The FBI also detailed specific guidance for U.S…
World’s Biggest Data Breaches
Ooh, pretty. Look what the folks at Information is Beautiful did with data from DataBreaches.net and the Identity Theft Resource Center: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/
FTC Charges Data Broker with Facilitating the Theft of Millions of Dollars from Consumers’ Accounts
Press release from the FTC: A data broker operation sold the sensitive personal information of hundreds of thousands of consumers– including Social Security and bank account numbers – to scammers who allegedly debited millions from their accounts, the Federal Trade Commission charged in a complaint filed today. According to the FTC’s complaint, data broker LeapLab bought…