Tag: news
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Breaking News: Officer Jones Takes His Work Home (Literally) – eCrimeBytes Nibble #18
Move over, Ocean’s Eleven. Officer Jones (no relation) allegedly stole his internal affairs file and computer towers from his police department. He hid some of the computer at his and his in-laws’…
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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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Police Officer’s Lies Were Bench-Pressed Out Of A Job – eCrimeBytes Nibble #14
Jonathan Andino formerly from the New Haven, CT police department was sentenced to 2 years for computer crime. Andino was found guilty of providing information from investigative database about a DEA target,…
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CT State Trooper Shares Info With GF’s Ex, Because Who Needs Job Security? – eCrimeBytes Nibble #13
At a first glance this case did not look that interesting, but after reading deeper it appears as if a CT state trooper (Mitchell Paz) let his girlfriend (Amanda Marino) use his…
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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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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:…