Hacker News with Generative AI: Identity Theft

My 14-year-old Instagram account, "javier," was stolen (twitter.com)
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.
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.
'My identity is stolen': Photos of influencers used to push pro-Trump propaganda (cnn.com)
Shady company relaunches popular old tech blogs, steals writers' identities (arstechnica.com)
On the trail of my identity thief (msn.com)
US woman accused of stealing identities to give North Koreans jobs (bbc.com)
North Koreans stole American identities and took remote tech jobs at Fortune 500 (fortune.com)