Theft

US Charges China’s Huawei With Trying To Steal Trade Secrets
US Charges China’s Huawei With Trying To Steal Trade Secrets
February 14, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

Chinese telecom firm Huawei was charged with racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets on Thursday (Feb. 13), along with two of its U.S. subsidiaries,...

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The Rise Of Organized — And Disorganized — Crime In Physical Retail
The Rise Of Organized — And Disorganized — Crime In Physical Retail
January 18, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

They say the perfect crime is hard to commit, but last week in Spokane, Washington an intrepid burglar managed to pull it off at the...

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NY Man Gets Jail Time For $390K Card Skimming Scheme
NY Man Gets Jail Time For $390K Card Skimming Scheme
January 09, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

A New York man, 39-year-old Bogdan Rusu, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on charges of using credit card skimming tactics to steal $390,141...

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Hackers Access Unsecured Facebook Database With 267M Users’ Info 
Hackers Access Unsecured Facebook Database With 267M Users’ Info 
December 20, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Security researcher Bob Diachenko and Comparitech discovered that a Facebook database with 267 million user IDs, phone numbers and names was left unsecured and accessed...

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Facebook, Alphabet Scammer To Serve Five Years In Prison
Facebook, Alphabet Scammer To Serve Five Years In Prison
December 20, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

A Lithuanian man who scammed Facebook and Google into sending him hundreds of millions of dollars has been sentenced to five years in prison, according...

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Lawyers Demand Proof That QuadrigaCX Founder Is Really Dead
Lawyers Demand Proof That QuadrigaCX Founder Is Really Dead
December 16, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

Perhaps call it “habeas corpus” of a different sort. In Latin, the term translates to “you have the body.” And in a court of law,...

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Thousands Of Facebook Employees’ Payroll Info Stolen In Smash And Grab
Thousands Of Facebook Employees’ Payroll Info Stolen In Smash And Grab
December 13, 2019  |  Facebook

Payroll information for tens of thousands of Facebook employees, including banking information, names, bank account numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers,...

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Cybercrooks Go Old School With German Jewelry Heist
Cybercrooks Go Old School With German Jewelry Heist
November 26, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Ours is the age of the cyberheist. Business email compromises. Spoofed phone numbers. Billions of passwords floating around. Malware and synthetic identities and the Dark Web, where...

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Is Self-Checkout Catnip For Criminals?
Is Self-Checkout Catnip For Criminals?
October 11, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Great news for innovative retailers. Less so for cashiers. The self-checkout system market is expected to increase from its current value of $2 billion to more...

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