Andrew Blake has the update on a case we’ve been watching: An extradition hearing has been set in the case of Karim Baratov, a Canadian man wanted by U.S. prosecutors in relation to an international cybercrime ring implicated in hacking over a half-billion Yahoo accounts. Attorneys for Mr. Baratov and the Justice Department will argue…
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Kansas ID theft suspects had 429 job applications
Today’s reminder about the need to secure and securely destroy PAPER records, too, comes to us from Kansas: A search warrant shows authorities are investigating two suspected identity thieves found with a box filled with hundreds of Dollar Tree job applications apparently obtained by going through trash containers in Wichita. The warrant was filed recently…
Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to Cyber Crime That Cost Sedgwick County $566,000+
A Georgia man pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges he was part of an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County more than $566,000, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. George S. James, 49, Brookhaven, Ga., pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. In his plea, James admitted that on Oct. 7, 2016, Sedgwick County…
Dozens of Fresno Unified employees affected by data breach
Veronica Miracle reports: Three Fresno suspects, accused of living off other people’s money– investigators said they found Andrew Clement, Katie Whala, and Randall McKinney with troves of stolen personal information last month. […] “There was stolen mail, there were checks, there was a spreadsheet from the Unified School District– so this wasn’t just one item,”…
Massive WWE Leak Exposes 3 Million Wrestling Fans’ Addresses, Ethnicities And More
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: WWE fans take note: an IT error may have left your personal information open to anyone, including addresses, educational background, earnings and ethnicity. Earlier this week, Bob Dyachenko, from security firm Kromtech, told Forbes he’d uncovered a huge, unprotected WWE database containing information on more than 3 million users, noting it was open…
Pakistani Man Sentenced for Laundering Millions in Telecom Hacking Scheme
A massive international hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme served as a backdrop for an FBI investigation that led to the capture of a Pakistani citizen who played a major role in scamming U.S. companies out of millions of dollars in fees. From November 2008 to December 2012, Muhammad Sohail Qasmani laundered more than $19.6 million…