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The malware was first observed by researchers from the MalwareHunterTeam in mid-November 2021. [7]By April 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released an advisory that several developers and money launderers for BlackCat had links to two defunct ransomware as a service (RaaS) groups – DarkSide and BlackMatter. [7]
For those two years, Americans reported more than 800,000 cases of benefits-related identity theft alone. "The COVID-19 pandemic provided new opportunities for identity thieves," she says.
The Identity Theft Resource Center said there were 662 data breaches in the United States in 2010, almost a 33% increase from the previous year. [19] Between January, 2015 and September, 2017, the Identity Theft Resource Center estimates that there were 7,920 breaches affecting more than one billion records that could lead to identity theft. [18]
Lori Erica Kennedy Ruff (born Kimberly Maria McLean, October 16, 1968 – December 24, 2010) was an American identity thief who committed suicide in the driveway of her former in-laws' home in Longview, Texas on December 24, 2010.
Identity Crisis. Identity theft has become common in the United States. The Federal Trade Commission got 1.4 million reports of it last year as the pandemic worsened the trend.Incidents in 2019 ...
The time it takes to resolve self-reported identity theft cases has worsened since the previous report in January, when it was nearly 19 months. As of April, the IRS took more than 22 months to resolve these cases and had roughly 500,000 unresolved cases in its inventory, according to the report.
The two women suspected in a major identity theft case appeared in Kitsap County Superior Court Monday. Emily Vranic, 32, pleaded not guilty to 15 charges brought by the Kitsap County Prosecutor ...
18 U.S.C. § 1028A, the federal aggravated identity theft statute, states: Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute], knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such felony, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 years.