Getting hacked is like having your computer turn traitor on you, spying on everything you do and shipping your secrets to identity thieves.
Victims don’t see where their stolen data end up. But sometimes security researchers do, stumbling across stolen-data troves that offer a glimpse of what identity theft looks like from criminals’ perspective.
Researchers from U.K.-based [...]

The Army recently discovered a potential penetration of soldier information that occurred on a password-protected, secure web-based database of almost 1600 soldiers. As a cautionary measure, the Army is notifying those affected soldiers via email or letter.
The affected soldiers are those who registered with, or participated in, the Army-sponsored Operation Tribute to Freedom program over [...]

Chinese hackers have managed to reverse-engineer the iTunes Gift Certificate algorithm and are knocking out knock-off cards and selling them cheap. In China, a $200 equivalent card can be had for just $3.
In a tribute to China’s healthy disregard for intellectual property (much like the policy in the US for the first 100 years of [...]