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Insurer: Breach Undetected for Nine Years

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Dominion National Says Recently Discovered Incident Dates Back to 2010 A dental and vision insurer's revelation that it recently discovered a 9-year-old data security incident offers an extreme example of the difficulty some organizations have in detecting data breaches.

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

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was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. The IRS says it will require ID.me for all logins later this summer. McLean, Va.-based

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

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Fitis’s real-life identity was exposed in 2010 after two of the biggest sponsors of pharmaceutical spam went to war with each other, and large volumes of internal documents, emails and chat records seized from both spam empires were leaked to this author. My fingerprints change beyond recognition every few days. Image: Archive.org.

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IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access

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as a condition of receiving state or federal financial assistance, such as unemployment insurance, child tax credit payments, and pandemic assistance funds. In the face of COVID, dozens of states collectively lost tens of billions of dollars at the hands of identity thieves impersonating out-of-work Americans seeking unemployment insurance.

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MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud

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In the criminal complaint against Mann (PDF), a New York FBI agent said the CEO admitted that starting in 2010 or 2011 he began borrowing large sums of money from banks and financing companies under false pretenses. ” “Mann estimated that he fraudulently obtained about $70 million that he has not paid back. .”

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Hospitality Chain McMenamins discloses data breach after ransomware attack

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According to the company, threat actors have stolen data of individuals employed between July 1, 2010, and December 12, 2021.

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Maryland Department of Labor discloses a data breach

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The security breach was discovered earlier this year, hackers also accessed data stored in the Literacy Works Information System and a legacy unemployment insurance service database. ” Threat actors accessed to files stored in the Literacy Works Information System that are dated back 2009, 2010, and 2014. .