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RaidForums admin “Omni” granted conditional bail while U.K. considers U.S. extradition request

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Dissent

As seen on Breach Forum, U.K. High Court Judge Stephen Morris has rejected a request by the U.S. to keep Diogo Santos Coelho (aka “Omni” of RaidForums) in jail while the U.S. appeals a magistrate judge’s decision to grant him conditional bail. Coelho was arrested in January 2022, but his arrest was not announced until…

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Alleged Russian Cryptocurrency Money Launderer Extradited to United States

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Dissent

The alleged operator of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e was extradited yesterday from Greece to the United States to face charges in the Northern District of California. “After more than five years of litigation, Russian national Alexander Vinnik was extradited to the United States yesterday to be held accountable for operating BTC-e, a criminal cryptocurrency…

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Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)

Posted on August 2, 2022 by chum1ng0

Editor’s Note: Starting this week, we may try a weekly column with data breach-related news from Spanish-language or South American entities. If you have submissions for the column, email them to Chum1ng0 at [email protected]. CL: Chronology of a sabotage: PJUD official who adulterated Boric’s old case is formalized: (machine translation:) The South Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office…

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911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

Posted on July 30, 2022 by Dissent

Brian Krebs writes: 911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The abrupt closure comes ten days after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look…

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TikTok says it’s storing US data domestically amid renewed security concerns

Posted on June 18, 2022 by Dissent

Karissa Bell reports: TikTok says it’s achieved a “significant milestone” toward its promises to beef up the security of its US users’ data. In a new update, the company says it has “changed the default storage location of US user data.” As the company notes, it had already stored much of its user data in the United…

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Password recovery from beyond the grave

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Dissent

Richard Speed writes: Every disaster recovery plan needs to contain the “hit by a bus” scenario. But have you ever retrieved a password from beyond the grave? One Register reader has. Welcome to On Call. Today’s tale, told by a reader Regomized as “Mark” takes us back some 15 years when he was handling the…

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