#identity theft
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Card skimming drains millions from SNAP recipients
Criminals use hidden devices to steal from people using food assistance benefits, costing recipients millions of dollars.
NPR · 1m
FBI Seizes Laptops for North Korean Funds
FBI arrests Texas tech workers for funneling U.S. paychecks to North Korea.
Dallas Express · 1m
Trump Signs Identity Theft and Boondoggle Laws
Trump signs federal laws to improve identity theft victim support and require disclosure of over-budget federal projects.
Dallas Express · 1m
Banks Rethink Identity Checks as AI Fakes Voices and Faces
Banks face new identity fraud risks as AI creates realistic voices and faces.
Pymnts · 1m
Scammers buy Google ads to steal bank logins
Criminals use fake Google ads to steal bank logins, causing millions in losses.
Fox News · 2m
Android Banking Malware Bypasses Fingerprint Lock
Chameleon malware steals PINs by bypassing Android security.
Fox News · 1m
Never use ChatGPT for these five tasks
ChatGPT risks legal, medical and identity issues without privacy protections.
Engadget · 1m
Floridians Over 60 Lost $710M to Scams
Florida seniors lost $710m to cybercrime, here’s how to recover.
The Conversation · 1m
Nearly $1M lost in LinkedIn romance scam
A woman shares how a two-year online deception cost her almost a million dollars and what warning signs she missed.
Fox News · 4m
How a TikTok influencer exposed a fake arrest warrant scam
A New Jersey mother received a call from someone impersonating a real lieutenant, complete with her personal details and a fake warrant signed by a dead judge.
ABC7 New York · 1m
Fake airline support scams are stealing credit cards
Scammers create hundreds of fake airline support accounts daily to trick frustrated passengers into sharing payment details.
TechRadar · 1m
When fraud becomes the customer
AI is helping criminals impersonate real people so convincingly that banks need to rethink how they verify identity.
Pymnts · 3m
Revolut hackers demand $3 million ransom
A group calling itself iamnotavillain claims to have breached the British fintech and is threatening to sell customer data.
Pymnts · 1m
Florida DMV breach: what we know so far
Hackers say they took 200,000 Florida driver records. The state confirms a breach but tells a different story about how it happened.
Fox News · 3m
Fake IDs, real JCPenney credit
Three North Texas women worked store registers across the country with stolen identities, and two are now headed to federal prison.
FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth · 1m · 5 views
How a routine car rental put 153 million driver's licenses at risk
A massive dark web leak exposing multi-spectrum ID scans reveals serious vulnerabilities in third-party identity verification systems.
Ars Technica · 1m