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Millions and Millions of Stolen Credentials Just Waiting to Be Bought Online
The Wire ^ | 2-28-14 | Danielle Weiner-Bronner

Posted on 03/01/2014 3:48:59 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hacking; identitytheft; stolenid

1 posted on 03/01/2014 3:49:00 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What kind of credentials? Lifeguard certificates, College diplomas, computer ips?


2 posted on 03/01/2014 4:16:21 AM PST by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

{Jesse Jackson} attended the Chicago Theological Seminary on a scholarship. He dropped out in 1966, three classes short of earning his master’s degree, to focus full-time on the civil rights movement. He was ordained a minister in 1968, and in 2000, was awarded his Master of Divinity Degree based on his previous credits earned, plus his life experience and subsequent work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson


3 posted on 03/01/2014 4:21:47 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: P.O.E.

I just signed up for lifelock a few months ago.

Shockingly, they found my
email/password for a shopping network on one of these ‘forsale’ websites.

Right now they are investigating someone opening up a bank account with my social security number.


4 posted on 03/01/2014 4:45:17 AM PST by CharlotteVRWC
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To: afraidfortherepublic

All your base are belong to us!


5 posted on 03/01/2014 4:45:53 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: CharlotteVRWC

Wonder how many government checks are being issued to all these frauds?


6 posted on 03/01/2014 4:52:15 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“Hackers can do far more harm with stolen credentials than with stolen payment cards, particularly when people use the same login and password for multiple accounts.

“They can get access to your actual bank account. That is huge,” Bearfield said. “That is not necessarily recoverable funds.”

From:
http://www.heavy.com/tech/2014/02/360-million-people-hacked-biggest-data-cybersecurity-breach-black-market-identity-theft/


7 posted on 03/01/2014 4:59:24 AM PST by LucyT (If you're NOT paranoid, you don't know what's going on.)
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To: CharlotteVRWC

Shockingly is not the word I would have used it this happened to us..!


8 posted on 03/01/2014 5:01:19 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave (The democRATic party preys on the ignorant..!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This is scary.

Maybe we need to go to a double layer of security, like we have for our computers at work. I have to insert a physical card and type in a pin to access my computer. Then I have to use passwords... so many passwords that I need a spreadsheet to remember them all. And the spreadsheet is password protected.


9 posted on 03/01/2014 5:11:50 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

fl


10 posted on 03/01/2014 5:25:06 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: GreatRoad
"To protect yourselves online Hold Security (naturally) recommends you buy their Credentials Integrity Services service. Or you could just change your password to something other than "password." "

And I said Hmm...?

11 posted on 03/01/2014 5:26:13 AM PST by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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