Back in June, many news sources reported that OPM got hacked and basically if you applied for a job with the Federal government in the last 20 years, your information was compromised.  Didn't matter if you were a park ranger or an office admin or what, you were compromised.  A more recent revelation is that fingerprint scans were also compromised ( Read more... )

An Experian executive said before Congress, presumably under oath, that there were no allegations of harm for the fullz information dumps that a company acquired by them and sold to this Vietnamese thief, who stupidly went to Guam and got arrested ( Read more... )

He arranged to buy access to an information agency that bought court records, posing as a private investigator out of Singapore. He had direct access to 200 million records that would allow fraudsters to create perfect identity/credit theft records. The data service he was buying them through was later acquired by Experian and he still siphoned ( Read more... )

Some interesting stuff. First up, Target. They were hit by a piece of malware called BlackPOS, in this post Brian Krebs interviews two computer security experts who fought BlackPOS at another unnamed retailer. The story is quite interesting, it's amazingly sophisticated software. For example, the software is equipped with anti-forensic modules ( Read more... )

There are forums on the internet called Carder sites where people post 'I have 3,000 clean American cards for sale' and such information is bought and sold. Such sites come and go, within the last few weeks a big one was taken down. They also move drugs and identity theft information. Some of the information is gained through card skimmers ( Read more... )

Man, I'd heard of identity thieves stealing kid's SSNs for credit cards and such, I guess I shouldn't be surprised when parents do it.

"It was her first credit card application, or so she thought, prompted by an offer on her Ohio college campus for a free T-shirt ( Read more... )

Certegy provides check processing services to a HUGE number of retail operations throughout the United States, possibly credit card processing internationally. Wal Mart? Best Buy? Certegy customers ( Read more... )

It's a cool story. Victim is in Starbuck's. Had previously been in the bank to identify the woman in a surveillance photo that was allegedly her, said thief had an expensive coat. There, in the line in front of her, is the woman with the coat ( Read more... )