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1. Central Calif. Appellate Program Breach (Friday, December 05, 2008 - law.com)
Disk contains attorneys' names, Social Security numbers and other personal info.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
2. "Delivery Notice" Trojan Spews Forth (Monday, March 30, 2009 - scmagazineus.com)
Torrent of spam, disguised as a message from DHL, makes its way into inboxes.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
3. "Smishing" scam could result in ID theft (Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - kauz.com)
Smishing is used to trick people into revealing personal information through text messaging.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
4. "The Analyzer" Released on Bail (Monday, September 29, 2008 - Kim Zetter - Wired)
Accused of hacking into computers belonging to Direct Cash Management of Calgary and increasing the balance on pre-paid debit cards to about CDN $3.5 million, then conspiring with others in Canada and...
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
5. $1 Million Reward In Data Breach Case (Thursday, November 13, 2008 - networkworld.com)
Express Scripts fights back against extortionist threatening to expose millions of patient records.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
6. $1 Million Stolen by Credit Card Skimming (Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - eastvalleytribune.com)
Ring used “skimming,” which involves retrieving data off of credit cards and using it to manufacture fake credit cards.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
7. $1.8 Million Verdict for Pretexting (Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - chicagotribune.com)
Victim's phone records were obtained through what is known as "pretexting."
Posted By : absolute-4-news
8. $10 Million Allegedly Stolen From Banks (Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - Kim Zetter - Wired)
A hacker arrested in Canada last year for allegedly stealing $1.5 million from Canadian banks, also allegedly hacked two U.S. banks, a credit and debit card distribution company and a payment processo...
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
9. $100 Million Dollar Identity Theft Ring (Monday, March 30, 2009 - chicagotribune.com)
Accused of stealing SSNs from children and immigrants who had not established credit.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
10. $112,000 stolen in bank hacking scheme (Monday, June 08, 2009 - Robert McMillan - ComputerWorld.com)
Alexey Mineev set up several "drop accounts" that were then wired funds stolen from banking and brokerage accounts. The criminals would infect PCs with malicious Trojan software that would steal accou...
Posted By : absolute-4-news
11. $2 million stolen in WV ID theft case (Tuesday, May 05, 2009 - sundaygazettemail.com)
An ID thief has stolen nearly $2 million from companies that have contracts with West Virginia.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
12. $2.8 Million Identity Theft (Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - ocregister.com)
Stole the identities of more than a dozen people who hoped to invest in real estate.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
13. $22M Identity Theft Scam (Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - Tim Wilson - DarkReading.com)
Allegedly used stolen identities of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Asurion customers.
Posted By : absolute-4-news
14. $250,000 Reward Offered by Microsoft for Conficker Worm Arrest (Thursday, February 12, 2009 - )
Microsoft, Afilias, ICANN, technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response designed to disable domain names targeted by the Conficker worm.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
15. $30 Million Bank Fraud and ID Theft Ring (Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - Office of Inadequate Security)
ID theft scheme attempted to defraud banks and their account holders.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
16. $400,000 electronic crime scheme (Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - nbclosangeles.com)
Stole ATM PINs with skimming devices placed on debit card point of service terminals.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
17. $55 million in bogus phone charges (Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - Brian Krebs - The Washington Post)
Accused of hacking into thousands of private telephone networks in the US and abroad.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
18. $6M Credit Card, Identity Theft Swindle (Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - nj.com)
Opened fraudulent accounts at banks and made nonexistent transactions at "shell" companies.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
19. 'Analyzer' surrenders to U.S. (Friday, May 01, 2009 - cnews.canoe.ca)
The 'Analyzer' will face U.S. justice on allegations he spearheaded a worldwide credit-card scam.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
20. 'Avalanche' Kit Fuels Phishing Attacks (Monday, October 26, 2009 - threatpost.com)
"Avalanche" responsible for nearly 25% of all ID theft related phishing attacks.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
21. 'Bonnie' Enters Guilty Plea (Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - Philadelphia Daily News)
Admits role in $116,000 identity theft scam with boyfriend.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
22. 'Cloud Manifesto' Sees Light of Day (Monday, March 30, 2009 - ComputerWorld.com)
The "Open Cloud Manifesto" in support of cloud-computing interoperability was released.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
23. 'Clyde' Gets 4 yrs. for ID Theft (Monday, November 17, 2008 - philly.com)
Brainy half of ID theft duo known as "Bonnie and Clyde" sentenced to prison.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
24. 'DarkMarket' Was FBI Cybercrime Sting (Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - Kevin Poulsen - Wired)
DarkMarket.ws, an online watering hole for thousands of identify thieves, hackers and credit card swindlers, has been secretly run by an FBI cybercrime agent for the last two years, according to docum...
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
25. 'Don't Click' Attack Strikes Twitter (Saturday, February 14, 2009 - internetnews.com)
Using a social engineering hack, clickjacking flooded Twitter's network.
Posted By : Rob-Douglas
 
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