Theft

Hackers Access Unsecured Facebook Database With 267M Users’ Info 
Hackers Access Unsecured Facebook Database With 267M Users’ Info 
December 20, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Security researcher Bob Diachenko and Comparitech discovered that a Facebook database with 267 million user IDs, phone numbers and names was left unsecured and accessed...

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Facebook, Alphabet Scammer To Serve Five Years In Prison
Facebook, Alphabet Scammer To Serve Five Years In Prison
December 20, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

A Lithuanian man who scammed Facebook and Google into sending him hundreds of millions of dollars has been sentenced to five years in prison, according...

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Lawyers Demand Proof That QuadrigaCX Founder Is Really Dead
Lawyers Demand Proof That QuadrigaCX Founder Is Really Dead
December 16, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

Perhaps call it “habeas corpus” of a different sort. In Latin, the term translates to “you have the body.” And in a court of law,...

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Thousands Of Facebook Employees’ Payroll Info Stolen In Smash And Grab
Thousands Of Facebook Employees’ Payroll Info Stolen In Smash And Grab
December 13, 2019  |  Facebook

Payroll information for tens of thousands of Facebook employees, including banking information, names, bank account numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers,...

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Cybercrooks Go Old School With German Jewelry Heist
Cybercrooks Go Old School With German Jewelry Heist
November 26, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Ours is the age of the cyberheist. Business email compromises. Spoofed phone numbers. Billions of passwords floating around. Malware and synthetic identities and the Dark Web, where...

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Is Self-Checkout Catnip For Criminals?
Is Self-Checkout Catnip For Criminals?
October 11, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Great news for innovative retailers. Less so for cashiers. The self-checkout system market is expected to increase from its current value of $2 billion to more...

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Criminals Use Voice AI To Steal Money
Criminals Use Voice AI To Steal Money
August 30, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Cybercriminals impersonated the voice of an energy company’s chief executive and demanded an urgent transfer of $243,000 – and it worked, according to a report...

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Capital One Hacker Indicted On Fraud, Theft Charges
Capital One Hacker Indicted On Fraud, Theft Charges
August 29, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

The woman accused of one of the largest instances of corporate hacking in recent memory was indicted on charges of wire fraud and computer data...

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Ex-Google Engineer Charged With Selling Trade Secrets To Uber
Ex-Google Engineer Charged With Selling Trade Secrets To Uber
August 27, 2019  |  Legal

Former Google engineer and self-driving pioneer Anthony Levandowski is being charged with stealing closely guarded secrets and selling them to Uber, The Wall Street Journal...

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