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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

April 16, 2024 0 Comments aleksandr ermakov, associated press, Breadcrumbs, Data Breaches, embargo, home depot breach, jeffrey collins, mark keel, mazafaka, mikhail shefel, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nikki haley, rescator, shtazi, target breach, tax refund fraud, tax return fraud, the post and courier, u.s. internal revenue service, verified

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:26:55 +0000

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

December 14, 2023 0 Comments 74957809554, A Little Sunshine, bothunter, Breadcrumbs, chronopay, ika, jsc hot spot, lev tolstoy, megaplan, mikhail borisovich shefel, mikhail lenin, mikhail shefel, pavel vrublevsky, pustota, r-fac1, target breach, v.zhabukin@freefrog-co-ru, vasily borisovich zhabykin, vera vrublevsky, zaxvatmira@gmail.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:51:39 +0000

On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “Rescator,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. Ten years later, KrebsOnSecurity has uncovered new clues about the real-life identity of Rescator.