ID Theft
Your Hacked Facebook Account Goes for $75 on the Dark Web
A new report from Privacy Affairs says that cybercriminals on the Dark Web will pay on average $1,000 for a full range of stolen documents and account details that enable them to ...
British retailer fined half a million pounds for poor cybersecurity hygiene
Companies that fail to protect themselves online no longer need to fear only the bad guys lurking in the hidden corners of the internet. Increasingly, they need to worry about the good ...
Network chief allegedly tries to extort $750,000 from former employers
After getting fired from his job as a director of infrastructure services, a Statesville (NC) man decided to try an extort his employers by threatening to release customers’ private information to the ...
Fraudsters increasingly turning to Fuze cards to evade police
Street thieves who specialize in cashing out stolen credit and debit cards are increasingly using Fuze cards to conduct fraud and theft, the U.S. Secret Service has warned in a memo to ...
Thieves make off with shoppers’ credit card numbers after hacking apparel site for four months
Shoppers who placed an order with discountmugs.com during a four-month period last year are receiving a worrying notification from the online apparel store. Apparently, hackers injected card skimming code into the company’s ...
Data of 32 million SKY Brasil customers easily accessible on unprotected ElasticSearch server
Brazil’s largest subscription television services company, SKY Brasil, leaked private data of 32 million customers on ElasticSearch, a search engine favored by enterprises, reported independent security researcher Fabio Castro on Twitter last ...
Hackers breach Quora to steal 100 million user accounts – if you were logged out, change your password now!
Question-and-answer website Quora has issued an urgent warning to 100 million of its users, notifying them that hackers now have their data as a result of a breach. “We are writing to ...
Fraud attempts to jump 14% during 2018 peak holiday shopping season, benchmark data indicates
Fraud attempts will likely increase 14% during the 2018 peak holiday season between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, according to new benchmark data from ACI Worldwide. The banking solutions provider revealed its ...
89% of top travel websites fail to protect your security
Researchers have put big-name travel and booking sites to the test to see how their security practices fare against other online services. If the results are anything to go by, we should ...
59% of people use the same password everywhere, poll finds
Despite an increasingly dangerous threat landscape and heightened global awareness of hacking and data breaches, password hygiene leaves a lot to be desired. 91 percent of people know that password recycling poses ...
