Almost nothing is scarier than finding out your privacy has been breached.
One tech reporter found out in the worst way possible.
‘We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database.’
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Writer Brian Krebs says he was alerted by a source on Monday that his driver’s license had found its way onto the dark web. Even worse, it was being given away as a free sample.
The source told Krebs that a service called Nexus was being advertised on a Russian cybercrime forum, Exploit, which was offering access to digital scans of IDs from an unthinkable number of people in North America.
Krebs wrote, “The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license
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