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Over 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Were Stolen by Hackers. Here’s What to Know

Over 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Were Stolen by Hackers. Here’s What to Know

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If you’ve used your driver’s license to verify your information either in the real world or online, there’s a chance that some of your driver’s license information was stolen by hackers in a security breach against the ID verification giant IDScan that was reportedly active for a year. “On or around Sept. 1, 2026, IDScan.net received information indicating that certain data may have been accessed without authorization,” IDScan said in a statement on Sept. 4. “Upon this discovery, we took immediate steps to secure our systems and engaged a team of third-party specialists to help determine the full nature and scope of the incident.” The hack is discussed in more detail by Brian Krebs, a security researcher who runs the website Krebs on Security. He says he was first made aware of the breach after a source alerted him to a post on a Russian cybercrime forum from a hacker offering digital scans of identity documents for more than 170 million people from a service called Nexus. Krebs was able to access Nexus and verify …

Four Paintings Stolen from the Renoir Museum in France

Four Paintings Stolen from the Renoir Museum in France

Published by Jenni Sidey

Thieves stole four paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Tuesday morning from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, according to a report by Le Monde and AFP.  In their haste, the two suspects abandoned two of four paintings, according to BFM TV, but managed to escape with two artworks, estimated to be worth €9 million ($10.5 million). The museum’s alarm system went off at 5:48 a.m. (local time), with police reportedly arriving on site in five minutes. Related Articles “Attacking the Renoir Museum is an attack on a part of Cagnes-sur-Mer’s history and heritage,” said Bryan Masson, the city’s mayor. He said that the thieves used “an electric knife” or “a metal saw” to cut the bolts from which the paintings hung, according to the New York Times. The Renoir Museum was the artist’s last home, and it exhibits his paintings, sculptures, and furniture. Prior to the robbery, the museum had on view 12 of Renoir’s paintings. The stolen artworks are Portrait of Madame Pichon (1895), Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910), Coco Lisant …

California Police Seize 2,400 Stolen Catalytic Converters Worth .3 Million

California Police Seize 2,400 Stolen Catalytic Converters Worth $4.3 Million

Published by Jenni Sidey

A three-month investigation into widespread catalytic converter thefts in Southern California culminated Thursday with five arrests and the recovery of an enormous cache of allegedly stolen auto parts, according to KTLA. Law enforcement agencies executed several search warrants across Los Angeles and Orange counties, uncovering roughly 2,400 catalytic converters with an estimated value of $4.3 million. Images released after the raids show converters packed into large containers and stacked throughout a warehouse allegedly connected to the operation. Investigators believe the suspects were part of a broader system for handling stolen converters rather than simply carrying out individual thefts. Authorities say the investigation connected thefts reported across several northern Orange County communities to an organized operation that collected, stripped, transferred and purchased the stolen equipment. KTLA writes that the searches also turned up more than $105,000 in cash, two firearms that authorities said were not registered and several boxes containing precious metals. Catalytic converters are attractive to thieves because they contain valuable metals that can be extracted and resold. The operation brought together several agencies, including …

Jeremy Clarkson says multiple sheep stolen from his Diddly Squat farm

Jeremy Clarkson says multiple sheep stolen from his Diddly Squat farm

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Clarkson’s Farm presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said that 11 sheep have been stolen from his Diddly Squat farm. The 66-year-old said he noticed the livestock were missing while counting his flock in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, alongside co-star Kaleb Cooper. In an interview with The Sun, he told those responsible to “put them back”. The former Top Gear and The Grand Tour host stated that the stolen sheep were worth in excess of £2,000 at market, expressing concern that animals kept in other fields on the property might also have been taken. He suggested the theft took place at night or on a day when filming for Prime Video’s Clarkson’s Farm was paused, explaining that otherwise there is “a film crew here all the time” and “a drone in the air”. Asked whether he believed the show had made his farm a target, …

Stolen Claude session cookies can reach corporate Gmail through grants no IT admin can revoke

Stolen Claude session cookies can reach corporate Gmail through grants no IT admin can revoke

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Infostealers replayed stolen Claude session cookies into paid accounts without ever touching the login page two-factor authentication guards. The accounts Anthropic flagged were card-billed, self-serve accounts, which is the population no corporate identity provider governs, and no admin console can sign out. Session-cookie replay bypasses SSO as thoroughly as it bypasses 2FA. What SSO provides here is revocation and visibility, not prevention. The company disclosed the campaign in notification emails to affected users, named six stealer families, signed the accounts out, stripped the saved payment methods, and refunded the charges it found. The burned usage is the small loss. What those sessions could reach is the exposure, and none of it sat behind an identity controlled by an enterprise. Anthropic told affected users that a bad actor was using common infostealer malware to lift Claude login sessions off their computers and then replaying them to burn the accounts’ usage, according to the notification an affected user posted to Reddit and BleepingComputer reported on August 30. It named Vidar, LummaC2, StealC, RedLine and Acreed on Windows …

Apple Says Former Engineer Used Stolen Trade Secrets at OpenAI, Taught AI Agent to Run Them

Apple Says Former Engineer Used Stolen Trade Secrets at OpenAI, Taught AI Agent to Run Them

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Apple today submitted new evidence in its lawsuit against OpenAI, with the hope that the new information will persuade the judge to grant an expedited discovery process. Apple filed a theft of trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan in July, accusing them of using multiple methods to steal data from Apple. Liu kept an Apple-issued MacBook after he left for OpenAI, and Apple got it back after the lawsuit was filed. Apple now says forensic analysis of the laptop has uncovered more evidence of Liu’s use of Apple information and his attempts to hide what he’d done. From the lawsuit: Mr. Liu not only downloaded a confidential Apple circuit schematic but also used it in his work at OpenAI; Far from his unauthorized access to Apple’s third-party cloud storage being unknown to him, Mr. Liu and others at OpenAI were well-aware of that access; Mr. Liu, upon learning of Apple’s internal investigation of him, sent instructions for destroying evidence to an OpenAI colleague who confirmed she would comply; and Mr. …

Discount gas stations praised by Trump sold m of stolen fuel, lawsuit claims

Discount gas stations praised by Trump sold $4m of stolen fuel, lawsuit claims

Published by Sam Flores

The company that supplied fuel to the discount gas stations praised by Donald Trump is being sued for allegedly stealing nearly $4m worth of gas. Mansfield Oil Company of Gainesville sued KRSM and its president, Syed Kazmi, for allegedly picking up about 1.1m gallons of fuel from 21 May to 7 July, worth more than $3,998,000, and not paying for it. KRSM sold some of the fuel to stations that are part of the Freedom Fuel Network, according to the suit. The dispute comes after the Trump administration promoted the Freedom Fuel Network, which offered gas for the low price of $3.47 a gallon in July, when drivers were facing higher oil prices amid the war with Iran and the busy summer travel season was driving up demand. “I am pleased to announce that a VERY smart Retailer, located throughout the Northeast, is stepping up,” the US president said in a Truth Social post just a few days before the Fourth of July weekend, pointing to the Freedom Fuel Network. “America has never been stronger …

‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist | Music

‘After I had my cat stolen, I would listen to Funkadelic and cry and cry’: Jennifer Herrema’s honest playlist | Music

Published by Sam Flores

The first song I fell in love withVan Halen’s Runnin’ With the Devil. I was five or six and I went to visit my cousin Tommy who was much older. He was on a hockey team and we went to see them practise before the game and they had Runnin’ With the Devil on really loud. I was like: “Wait, what’s this?!” The song I do at karaokeYou Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC. Me and Brian Johnson – my voice has that thing, you know? The song I inexplicably know every lyric toI still remember the full 12-inch version of the Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight – I did it this morning! That’s a record my dad got me. He loved dancing to it. The song I can no longer listen toMeet on the Ledge by Fairport Convention. Partly because of the tragedy of Sandy Denny. But also because I listened to it over and over at a really depressing time. The song that changed my lifeWhen I first heard Lou Reed’s Satellite of …

.3 Million Van Cleef & Arpels Necklace Stolen From Vienna Museum

$4.3 Million Van Cleef & Arpels Necklace Stolen From Vienna Museum

Published by Jenni Sidey

Two men stole a diamond necklace worth millions of dollars from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on Thursday, after entering the museum as ordinary visitors and smashing open a display case. The unidentified men entered the MAK during opening hours and targeted the museum’s current exhibition of jewelry by Van Cleef & Arpels, the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reported. The men smashed a glass case, grabbed the necklace, and fled. No one was injured.  Police said on Friday that the men had bought tickets to the museum, were not wearing masks, and were captured clearly on surveillance cameras. They used a hammer to break the display case before escaping, according to CBS News.  Related Articles The stolen piece is a platinum Van Cleef & Arpels necklace set with 673 stones totaling more than 200 carats. It was created for Egypt’s royal family and worn by Queen Nazli in 1939 at the wedding of her daughter, Princess Fawzia, to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, then crown prince of Iran and later the country’s last shah. The necklace sold at Sotheby’s …