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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

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

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

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

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

Account takeovers allegedly used to plunder digital wallets

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

Man alleged to have faked identity as game developer

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

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

Black HatRevenge plan morphs into data leak discovery

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Less checked online services bear brunt

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

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

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

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

Convicted fraudster says he was given personal details in records requests

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

You call it 'hacking.' I call it 'investigation'

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Let's call the whole thing off

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