Identity fraud / theft

News about Identity fraud / theft

Article | 10/05/2013 Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud
A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.
Article | 26/04/2013 LivingSocial gets hacked, 50 million users told to reset passwords
More than 50 million users of the daily deals site LivingSocial are being asked to reset their passwords after hackers attacked the company's servers ...
Article | 17/04/2013 Microsoft moves to optional two-factor authentication
Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the lo...
Article | 4/04/2013 Bitcoin storage service, Instawallet, suffers database attack
An online bitcoin storage service, Instawallet, said Wednesday it is accepting claims for stolen bitcoins after the company's database was fraudulentl...
Article | 28/03/2013 Researchers find new point-of-sale malware called BlackPOS
A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers ...