matt donahue – Computer Security Articles

ID Theft Service Resold Access to USInfoSearch Data

November 28, 2023 admin data breaches, Experian, fake edr, hieu, jackiechan, kodex, martin data llc, matt donahue, scott hostettler, telegram, usinfosearch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:57:38 +0000

One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the U.S. consumer data broker USinfoSearch, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

April 27, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, apple, AT&T, Coinbase, discord, emergency data request, FBI, GitHub, google, kodex, LinkedIn, matt donahue, meta, microsoft, snapchat, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, TikTok, twilio, Twitter, Verizon, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:27:35 +0000

When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. But don’t tell that to Matt Donahue, a former FBI agent who recently quit the agency to launch a startup that aims to help tech companies do a better job screening out phony law enforcement data requests — in part by assigning trustworthiness or “credit ratings” to law enforcement authorities worldwide.