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Source: themarkup.org November 22, 2022 08:00 ET Updated November 23, 2022 15:00 ET The Markup found services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block sending sensitive data By Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Colin Lecher Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, …

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Too young to drive, old enough to bribe AT&T staff, apparently Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Sat 15 Oct 2022 // 01:07 UTC A man who lost $24 million in cryptocurrency in an elaborate SIM swapping scam has won a multi-million-dollar judgment against the thief, who was 15 at the time of the …

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The distribution of messages supposedly from Fast Company magazine marked one of the largest breaches ever of Apple’s content controls By Joseph Menn September 27, 2022 at 10:09 p.m. EDT Hackers breached internal systems at Fast Company magazine Tuesday evening, defacing the company’s …

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Bank of America recently sent a customer service email warning users to watch out for this new phishing attack. Threat actors are sending realistic texts requesting that you send money using Zelle® as payment due to a "fraud alert." These texts make the warning look legitimate, and if you respond …

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CyberheistNews Vol 12 #38  |  September 20th, 2022 It was all over the news, but ZDNet's Eileen Yu was one of the first. -- "Hacker is believed to have breached Uber's entire network in a social engineering attack, which one security vendor says is more extensive than the company's 2016 global …

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