Category: Breach
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Pompompurin: The Good Boy Gone Bad For Running BreachForums – eCrimeBytes Nibble #16
Forget the usual suspects. It’s always the ones with cute and innocent-sounding usernames that you have to watch out for. Lesson learned, Pompompurin. But you know what they say, never judge a…
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Crypto Cash for Classified Cache: The Failed Espionage Attempt Of An NSA Employee – eCrimeBytes Nibble #15
Well, well, well, looks like Jareh Sebastian Dalke wanted to play James Bond and sell classified information to a foreign government. From June 6, 2022, to July 1, 2022, he was an…
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Pair Charged For Impersonating Police Officers To Extort Victims – eCrimeBytes Nibble #7
Here is a recent arrest that is worth watching. This is an interesting twist where the intruders, allegedly part of the “ViLE” group, used powerful law enforcement only databases to target their…
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Group Of CyberCriminals Breached Tax Preparers, Stole Data, And Filed Millions Of Dollars Of Fraudulent Returns – eCrimeBytes Nibble #6
This is a pretty sophisticated cybercriminal group: United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the partial unsealing of an indictment charging Andi Jacques (41, Greenacres), Monika Shauntel Jenkins (33, Hollywood), Louis Noel…
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FEMA IT Staff Arrested In ID Theft & Tax Refund Fraud Scheme – eCrimeBytes Nibble #3
This is another interesting story where a FEMA insider steals tens of thousands of identities: An information technology specialist at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was arrested this week on suspicion of hacking…
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Officer Arrested For Hacking Into Woman’s Social Media Accounts And Posting Her Nudes
An officer was suspended and arrested after hacking into a woman’s social media accounts, stealing her nudes, and posting them to her contacts: https://bronx.news12.com/mount-laurel-officer-suspended-from-force-accused-of-hacking-into-womans-social-media-accounts Officer Ayron Taylor was arrested earlier this month.…
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Vastaamo Compromise Suspect Caught In France
An update to my blog yesterday: Most notable was the method in which he was caught: But as documented by KrebsOnSecurity in November 2022, security experts soon discovered Ransom Man had mistakenly included…
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Extorting Patients of Vastaamo, An Online Psychotherapy Service
It’s unfortunate the details are scarce on this case, as it would make a good eCrimeBytes episode. A Finnish man was blamed for an attack at an online psychotherapy service named Vastaamo:…