Questions tagged [identity-theft]
Identity theft is the act of impersonating someone else on a computer system, for malicious purposes - i.e. without their knowledge or consent.
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Is electronic signature a proper/sufficient mean for identification/authentication?
We have received an electronically signed GDPR data request from a person who has only provided his name and surname. We wanted to be sure that this person is who he claims he is, so we have asked to ...
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Sending photo of debit card over email [duplicate]
I have seen/heard online stores (not necessarily within the U.S., maybe international) asking buyers to provide a picture of their debit cards via email (e.g., for verifying identity). My intuition ...
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sealed data from a stolen laptop
Is there a way to force google drive to erase all files + passwords contained on a computer at shutdown (as a proactive measure)? Or this could be accomplished by a standard script to delete all cache ...
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Fraud Detection - 2FA Bypass Methods and SIM Cloning
I am assisting another Data Scientist with helping a bank detect and prevent fraud via data analysis and predictive modeling (Machine Learning). It's a challenge because the proportion of known ...
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Is it safe to send my id photo for verification [duplicate]
Is it safe to send my ID photo and me holding my ID photo to a site(BitSkins). My intetions were to buy some skins for games, but they asked for verification so can they missuse my identity ?
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What should I do if my sensitive information is potentially leaked?
I sold an laptop recently, but didn’t care to do a secure erase to make sure there wasn’t any data left. After a long time, I suddenly realized that I shouldn’t have be so careless and began to worry ...
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Can a remote user (logged into my computer via LogMeIn) capture my password as I log into a website?
I work for a large company with IT support that uses LogMeIn to take control of our PCs when troubleshooting. Today while being assisted I was asked to log into an internal website during a LogMeIn ...
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Can Identity Theft Protection Services Get Hacked?
I recently was dumbfounded by a question whether identity theft protection services can get hacked. Me and my family we're T-Mobile customers in the US and after the recent T-Mobile hack we got free ...
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Is an owned domain + self hosted email the closest to owning one's online identity? Are there better alternatives?
Most online accounts identify users using email/phone & password; but since most all email/phone is handled by another service (e.g. Gmail), one's online identity only exists so long as these ...
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Send a Picture of my ID and a selfie of me holding it to a Questionable Website
Some website asked for the verification of my identity to make a purchase of online goods. I didn't think twice and send them a picture of both sides of my country's ID (not USA) and a selfie holding ...
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Mitigating physical cookie theft
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Malicious user gaining physical access to browser cookies (e.g., 3rd party repair guy copying cookies to his own device or something like that). Let's say legit user did not clear ...
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Nonprofit organizations asking me to email them a photo of my driver's license
Recently I've had two nonprofit organizations ask me to email them a photo of my driver's license. No money is changing hands, and both of these are legitimate and well-known nonprofits.
Organization ...
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Can a fingerprint be reconstructed from a device that uses it for authentication?
I've noticed a lot of phones (not to mention, other devices) have built in fingerprint sensors these days.
Do these devices store information in such a way that your fingerprint could be reconstructed ...
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Found fake Facebook profile with my name and education history, what to do?
A family member of mine called my attention to a Facebook profile with data significantly resembling mine:
Matching first and last name
Matching city
Matching secondary school
Matching university
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Protecting a website from being kidnapped
I have a MediaWiki website in Hebrew;
As common with MediaWiki websites, it has lots of content and rebuilding it in case of a disaster isn't feasible.
I chose to give that website a Global TLD (a non ...
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