ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

A hacker claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals who are seeking Wall Street jobs or are working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job applicants.

Read more:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229336/Hacker_claims_breach_of_50_000_accounts_from_Wall_Street_IT_recruiting_firm

Unwanted pressure to buy protection services from credit reporting agencies and the inability to speak to a live person when reporting an identity theft situation were the two most annoying issues victims identified in a Federal Trade Commission...

Javelin Strategy also reports that one in three people who received a data breach notification in 2013 became a victim of identity fraud.

According to the results of Javelin Strategy & Research's 2014 Identity Fraud Study, there were a total of 13.1 million identity fraud victims in 2013, or one victim every two seconds (h/t Dark Reading).

That's an increase of more than 500,000 fraud victims over the previous year, and the second-highest number since the study was launched in 2006 -- in 2009, the study reported 13.9 million identity fraud victims.

The recently unearthed website of a service specializing in selling access to compromised email and social networking accounts of Russian and Ukrainian users offers a fascinating glimpse into just how much one such account is worth to spammers.

Wannabe spammers and social engineers can choose to buy accounts by the service, and should be ready to pay 190 rubles ($5.9) for 100 compromised Vkontakte accounts belonging mostly to Russian users, or 180 rubles ($5.6) for the same number belonging to mostly Ukrainian users.

Facebook accounts are somewhat cheaper - 500 for 200 rubles ($6.2), and the same number of compromised Twitter account can be had for 250 rubles ($7.7).

Read more to find out how others are earning money with your stolen data, you should:

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13275