college Woman, 48, posed as her 22-year-old daughter, took student loans, attended classes, and dated college guys David Pescovitz

indifference Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks Cory Doctorow

cfic Blockbuster Gizmodo investigation reveals probable masterminds of the massive anti-Net Neutrality identity theft/astroturf campaign Cory Doctorow

scumbags A tip to keep your home address off the internet Cory Doctorow

zombie randroids US governmental requests for comment are routinely flooded by pro-corporate bots Cory Doctorow

privacy fly Report: someone is already selling user data from defunct Canadian retailer's auctioned-off servers Cory Doctorow

digital death Criminals have perfected the art of taking over dead peoples' online accounts Cory Doctorow

what's a rate limit Defective Comcast security exposes 26.5m customers' partial Social Security Numbers and addresses Cory Doctorow

mess with the bull Two sitting Senators were among the people whose identities were stolen in FCC comments from anti-Net Neutrality bots Cory Doctorow

credit bureaux Equifax lets identity thieves raid "frozen" credit reports through its shady, obscure secondary credit bureau Cory Doctorow

about time Equifax finally publishes a tally of what got breached when it left 146.6 million credit files unsecured Cory Doctorow

capers Attempted murder by cheesecake for the purpose of identity theft Jason Weisberger

1099s Man discovers he has been impersonated on Amazon by a money-launderer selling $555 "books" full of computer-generated word salad Cory Doctorow

bongo Fedex bought a company that stored 119,000 pieces of scanned customer IDs in a public Amazon cloud server, shut the company down, left the scans online for anyone to download Cory Doctorow

devumi New York Times profiles a sleazy Twitter follower-farm, the sleazy serial liar who made millions on it, and the celebs, politicians, sports figures and "influencers" who paid him Cory Doctorow

surveillance self-defense Wired releases a surveillance self-defense guide Cory Doctorow

negative externalities Democratic Senators propose federal breach disclosure law with 5-year prison sentences for covering up data-loss Cory Doctorow

Free Application for Federal Student Aid Once you have a student's name, birthday and SSN, the US Department of Education will give you EVERYTHING else Cory Doctorow

threat modeling Motherboard's excellent, accessible guide to internet security Cory Doctorow

young male american gamers A quantitative analysis of doxing: who gets doxed, and how can we detect doxing automatically? Cory Doctorow