The same miscreants responsible for breaking into the networks of America’s top consumer and business data brokers appear to have also infiltrated and stolen huge amounts of data from the
National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), a congressionally-funded non-profit organization that provides training, investigative support and research to agencies and entities involved in the prevention, investigation and prosecution of cybercrime.
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity
reported that entrepreneurs behind the underground criminal identity theft service
ssndob[dot]ms also were responsible for operating a small but powerful collection of hacked computers exclusively at top data brokers, including
LexisNexis,
Dun & Bradstreet and
HireRight/Kroll. A closer analysis of the Web server used to control that collection of hacked PCs shows that the attackers also had at least one infected system for several months this summer inside of the NW3c.
