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Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days

January 25, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, data breaches, Experian, Experian breach, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:58:46 +0000

On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about the incident for a month. This week, however, Experian acknowledged that the security failure persisted for nearly seven weeks, between Nov. 9, 2022 and Dec. 26, 2022.

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New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts

January 19, 2023 admin 2023 t-mobile breach, data breaches, Latest Warnings, optus, t-mobile breach, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:09:22 +0000

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts.

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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

January 9, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, annualcreditreport.com, data breaches, Experian, jenya kushnir, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Sen. Ron Wyden, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:05:15 +0000

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number.

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The Equifax Breach Settlement Offer is Real, For Now

December 20, 2022 admin data breaches, Equifax breach, equifax class action settlement, myprepaidcenter.com, Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:08:40 +0000

Millions of people likely just received an email or snail mail notice saying they’re eligible to claim a class action payment in connection with the 2017 megabreach at consumer credit bureau Equifax. Given the high volume of reader inquiries about this, it seemed worth pointing out that while this particular offer is legit (if paltry), scammers are likely to soon capitalize on public attention to the settlement money.

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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

December 13, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, breached, data breaches, FBI, infragard, pompompurin, RaidForums, usdod, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:54:21 +0000

InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

August 30, 2022 admin 0ktapus, christopher knauer, CloudFlare, data breaches, digitalocean, doordash, Group-IB, klaviyo, mailchimp, Matthew Prince, Security Keys, Security Tools, signal, sitel group, T-Mobile, teleperformance, twilio, Twitter, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:53:39 +0000

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.

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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

August 16, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, banorte breach, cloudsecurityalliance, cti league, data breaches, Group-IB, kurt seifried, ohad zaidenberg, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:06:00 +0000

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation. The administrator responded to this empty threat by purchasing the stolen banking data and leaking it on the forum for everyone to download.

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It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

August 11, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, AT&T, at&t internet, bellsouth.net, Bleeping Computer, data breaches, databreaches.net, Hold Security, Lawrence Abrams, new jersey cybersecurity & communications integration cell, sbcglobal.net, shinyhunters, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, u-verse, white house market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:45:31 +0000

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. The firm’s analysis of the data suggests it corresponds to current and former customers of AT&T. The telecommunications giant stopped short of saying the data wasn’t theirs, but it maintains the records do not appear to have come from its systems and may be tied to a previous data incident at another company.