The NY Times is reporting that the IRS finally admitted that their tax transcript service is great for identity thieves and shut it down. In 2013, thieves used it and other techniques to get over $5 billion in bogus tax refunds – costing the U.S. government (AKA you and me) a lot of money and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mastercard and Target concocted an agreement where Target would pay a fine of $19 million to settle all of the bank’s claims against Target as a result of the 2013-14 breach. This would be separate from an agreement with Visa. Mastercard was not able to get enough banks to agree to it, so the lawsuits […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In addition to the traditional ransomware that everyone knows about, the AdultFriendFinder breach I wrote about earlier has the hackers blackmailing users of the site. Now, mSpy clients are being extorted too. Brian Krebs is reporting that hackers are using the mSpy breach to extort iPhone users. Apparently, users who have mSpy installed are asked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The DoJ IG just released an assessment of the FBI’s use of the mass data collection powers of section 215 of The Patriot Act, renewal of which is currently being debated in Congress and the report says that no case developments resulted from the use of Section 215 orders. The Inspector General said: “As with our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, it was announced that Radio Shack was going to sell their customer information – over 100 million customers. Quickly, several camps came to the bankruptcy court to argue against the sale. First in line was AT&T (see article) and other carriers. AT&T claimed that, based on their agreement with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This month a number of smaller banks attempted to derail the agreement between Target and Visa because, they said, that the way Visa allocated the money, they got almost nothing (see post). Magically, after the judge said that he did not like the agreement but that he could not do anything about it, Visa agreed […]
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