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Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

That's certainly one way to get around COVID-19 travel restrictions

01 Sep 2020

Bad news: So much of your personal data has been hacked that lesson manuals on how to use it are the latest hot property

Cyber-crims bone up on methods for fun and profit, but mainly profit

16 Apr 2020

Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news

Roundup Including: Why was #RootGoat2020 trending on Twitter? It is as silly as you think

10 Feb 2020

Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen

Car smash-and-grab ends with loss of payroll details for 20,000 employees

13 Dec 2019

What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges

Account takeovers allegedly used to plunder digital wallets

14 Nov 2019

US charges Singapore coin miner with conning cloud firms out of compute time

Man alleged to have faked identity as game developer

09 Oct 2019

Suspected crypto-coin crook collared after emailing apology note to the cops rather than victim – shock claim

Phone nicked at airport, $15k in fun bux drained from wallet

04 Sep 2019

Talk about unintended consequences: GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data

Black Hat Revenge plan morphs into data leak discovery

09 Aug 2019

taps on glass Hellooo, IRS? Anyone in? Anyone guarding taxpayers' data from crooks? Hellooo?

Could someone slide a note on identity-theft protection under the door? Helloooo?

12 Jan 2019

Marriott: Good news. Hackers only took 383 million booking records ... and 5.3m unencrypted passport numbers

Plus an extra 20m passport digits and 8.6m payment card details, though encrypted

04 Jan 2019

HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims

Bank fesses up: Hackers made off with folks' personal details

06 Nov 2018

PINs and needled: Experian site blabbed codes to unlock credit accounts for fraudsters

Hack to thaw account freezes reported, fixed, hopefully never exploited

10 Oct 2018

ID theft in UK hits record high as crooks shift to more vulnerable targets

Less checked online services bear brunt

18 Apr 2018

What's the price for flinging your workers' private info at crooks? For Seagate, it's $6m

That was one expensive email for the storage specialist

28 Jul 2017

Crooks can nick Brits' identities just by picking up the phone and lying

No 133t hax0ring needed to hijack accounts, warns fraud watchdog's report

10 May 2017

Northrop Grumman can make a stealth bomber – but can't protect its workers' W-2 tax forms

'Stolen creds' used to swipe data on aerospace giant's staff

24 Apr 2017

Ohi-D'oh! US prison hands inmates' SSNs over to... an identity thief

Convicted fraudster says he was given personal details in records requests

08 Mar 2017

Snail mail thieves feed international identity theft rings say Oz cops

A little bit of social engineering, a little bit of lax physical security and a whole lot of pain

23 Nov 2016

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Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

Bad news: So much of your personal data has been hacked that lesson manuals on how to use it are the latest hot property

Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news

Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen

What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges

US charges Singapore coin miner with conning cloud firms out of compute time

Suspected crypto-coin crook collared after emailing apology note to the cops rather than victim – shock claim

Talk about unintended consequences: GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data

taps on glass Hellooo, IRS? Anyone in? Anyone guarding taxpayers' data from crooks? Hellooo?

Marriott: Good news. Hackers only took 383 million booking records ... and 5.3m unencrypted passport numbers

HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims

PINs and needled: Experian site blabbed codes to unlock credit accounts for fraudsters

ID theft in UK hits record high as crooks shift to more vulnerable targets

What's the price for flinging your workers' private info at crooks? For Seagate, it's $6m

Crooks can nick Brits' identities just by picking up the phone and lying

Northrop Grumman can make a stealth bomber – but can't protect its workers' W-2 tax forms

Ohi-D'oh! US prison hands inmates' SSNs over to... an identity thief

Snail mail thieves feed international identity theft rings say Oz cops

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The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'

Decade-old bug in Linux world's sudo can be abused by any logged-in user to gain root privileges

Apple slapped with €60m lawsuit from Italian consumer rights org for slowing down CPUs in old iPhones

I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg

Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers

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Articles about Identity Theft

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

Bad news: So much of your personal data has been hacked that lesson manuals on how to use it are the latest hot property

Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news

Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen

What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges

US charges Singapore coin miner with conning cloud firms out of compute time

Suspected crypto-coin crook collared after emailing apology note to the cops rather than victim – shock claim

Talk about unintended consequences: GDPR is an identity thief's dream ticket to Europeans' data

*taps on glass* Hellooo, IRS? Anyone in? Anyone guarding taxpayers' data from crooks? Hellooo?

Marriott: Good news. Hackers only took 383 million booking records ... and 5.3m unencrypted passport numbers

HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims

PINs and needled: Experian site blabbed codes to unlock credit accounts for fraudsters

ID theft in UK hits record high as crooks shift to more vulnerable targets

What's the price for flinging your workers' private info at crooks? For Seagate, it's $6m

Crooks can nick Brits' identities just by picking up the phone and lying

Northrop Grumman can make a stealth bomber – but can't protect its workers' W-2 tax forms

Ohi-D'oh! US prison hands inmates' SSNs over to... an identity thief

Snail mail thieves feed international identity theft rings say Oz cops

Most Read

The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'

Decade-old bug in Linux world's sudo can be abused by any logged-in user to gain root privileges

Apple slapped with €60m lawsuit from Italian consumer rights org for slowing down CPUs in old iPhones

I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg

Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers

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taps on glass Hellooo, IRS? Anyone in? Anyone guarding taxpayers' data from crooks? Hellooo?