Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasnt theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts...

T-Mobile customers, change your PINs

At the end of last week, T-Mobile was investigating reports of a “massive” customer data breach. A hacker claimed to stolen 100 million people’s data from T-Mobile’s servers, which included everything from names and driver licences to addresses and social security numbers. Its now confirmed...

ID theft ghouls targeting Surfside victims is appalling, but no surprise

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft, and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. In many ways, it’s the perfect crime for anyone indulging in social engineering. The amount of abandoned accounts due to death can only ever go up, and nobod...

ERC20ConvictionScore allows transfers to special TOTAL_GOVERNANCE_SCORE address

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details Vulnerability Details The credit score of the special addresstypeuint160.max is supposed to represent the sum of the credit scores of all users that are governors. But any user can directly transfer to this address increasing its balance and accumulating a...

IMF could track your browsing history to determine credit score

By Deeba Ahmed IMF researchers hinted at the possibility of using the user's browsing history, including search and purchasing data to determine the credit rating. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IMF could track your browsing history to determine credit score...

Credit Freezes are Free: Let the Ice Age Begin

It is now free in every U.S. state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity thieves and others from looking at private details in your consumer credit history. If you've been holding out because you're not particularly worried about ID...

DomainFactory Hacked—Hosting Provider Asks All Users to Change Passwords

Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy. The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged last Tuesday when an unknown attacker himself...