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Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

| | COVID-19, Data breaches, Derek Dubner, Economic Injury Disaster Loan, IDI data, Interactive Data LLC, International Computer Science Institute, Nicholas Weaver, The Coming Storm, UC Berkeley
A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses ...
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U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

| | A Little Sunshine, ATT, International Computer Science Institute, Johannes Jaskolski, LocationSmart, Nicholas Weaver, number port-out scams, Project Verify, Security Tools, Securus Technologies, SIM swap, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, UC Berkeley, verizon
The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer's phone ...
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