Hacker News with Generative AI: Identity Theft

My deleted Twitter account was instantly taken over by crypto scammers (ycombinator.com)
A few months ago I deactivated my Twitter/X accounts because I got tired of the community there. After the expiration date has passed, the username was immediately snatched, gone through the “blue checkmark” process (I never had one) and started posting cryptocoin pumping content.
Twitter, Crypto Scams, Social Media, Account Security, Identity Theft
10 points by alin23 13 days ago | 6 comments
Mastercard plans to get rid of credit card numbers (abc.net.au)
Mastercard has announced plans to remove the 16-digit number from their credit and debit cards by 2030 in a move designed to stamp out identity theft and fraudulent use of cards.
Financial Technology, Security, Payments, Identity Theft
9 points by stubish 57 days ago | 2 comments
He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along (nytimes.com)
In a beige-walled courtroom in eastern Iowa, a man who has been William Woods for his entire life faced a man who had been known as William Woods for much of his.
Identity Theft, Law, Crime, Personal Identity
272 points by rawgabbit 58 days ago | 270 comments
MyGiftCardSupply exposed hundreds of thousands of people's identity documents (techcrunch.com)
A U.S. online gift card store has secured an online storage server that was publicly exposing hundreds of thousands of customer government-issued identity documents to the internet.
Data Breaches, Security, Privacy, Identity Theft
5 points by impish9208 89 days ago | 0 comments
My 14-year-old Instagram account, "javier," was stolen (twitter.com)
Social Media, Security, Hacking, Identity Theft
7 points by instakill 155 days ago | 0 comments
When banks call to verify your details how do you know the call is legitimate? (ycombinator.com)
I got a call from my bank claiming that they're discontinuing physical credit card statements and asking for my email to send statements via email. Then they proceeded to also ask for my date of birth and home address to "verify details" after making the unsolicited call. It felt off but the call came from within the bank.
Security, Banking, Identity Theft
15 points by blurr 160 days ago | 37 comments
Serial academic fraudster steals medical, physics and computer science papers (forbetterscience.com)
Smut Clyde takes a brief respite from all that science fraud, to show you the comedy side of and impersonation plagiarism. Maybe less funny for those directly affected by theft of intellectual property, laptops and even identity, but we others can lean back and enjoy the hilarious antics of a wannabe scientist, engineer, neurosurgeon, film-star, Olympic shooter and sometimes even a young lady – Matthew J Stephenson.
Academic Fraud, Science, Plagiarism, Comedy, Identity Theft
9 points by rebanevapustus 201 days ago | 1 comments
'My identity is stolen': Photos of influencers used to push pro-Trump propaganda (cnn.com)
Social Media, Identity Theft, Politics, Propaganda
20 points by bjourne 216 days ago | 2 comments
Shady company relaunches popular old tech blogs, steals writers' identities (arstechnica.com)
Tech, Journalism, Ethics, Identity Theft
74 points by Brajeshwar 264 days ago | 9 comments
On the trail of my identity thief (msn.com)
Identity Theft, Crime, Personal Security
118 points by signa11 317 days ago | 111 comments
US woman accused of stealing identities to give North Koreans jobs (bbc.com)
Cybercrime, North Korea, Identity Theft
15 points by mikhael 320 days ago | 0 comments
North Koreans stole American identities and took remote tech jobs at Fortune 500 (fortune.com)
Cybersecurity, North Korea, Identity Theft, Remote Work
21 points by nradov 320 days ago | 10 comments