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Albert Gonzalez. Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal and police informer, [ 1] who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL ...
Computer hacking. In July 2015, an unknown person or group calling itself "The Impact Team" announced they had stolen the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker (s) copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personal identifying ...
Carding (fraud) Carding refers not only to payment card based fraud, but also to a range of related activities and services. Carding is a term of the trafficking and unauthorized use of credit cards. [ 1] The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. [ 2]
On Saturday, Nov. 30, the hackers had set their traps and had just one thing to do before starting the attack: plan the data's escape route. As they uploaded exfiltration malware to move stolen ...
If you suspect a financial account has been hacked, change your password immediately and request a change of account, card numbers or PINs. Check your credit report – If a hacker sets up a new ...
2017 Equifax data breach. The Equifax data breach occurred between May and July 2017 at the American credit bureau Equifax. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft.
The outlet said that hacked data includes hashed credit card numbers, the last four digits of credit cards, credit card expiration dates in addition to names, addresses and phone numbers.
Cyber criminals had accessed approximately 145.5 million U.S. Equifax consumers' personal data, including their full names, Social Security numbers, credit card information, birth dates, addresses, and, in some cases, driver's license numbers. [28] 2016 Indian Banks data breach – It was estimated 3.2 million debit cards were compromised.