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IRS Get Transcript breach INVOLVES Instant knowledge-based authentication
Attackers defeated the IRS's instant KBA by using personal information obtained from other breaches.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“probably by using some personal information they obtained from other breaches”
IRS Get Transcript breach INVOLVES Internal Revenue Service
The incident concerned unauthorized access to taxpayer records held by the IRS.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“The unauthorized attempts to access information using the Get Transcript application”
IRS Get Transcript breach INVOLVES Money mule
The fraud operation involved networks of money mules used to receive and transfer stolen tax refunds.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“Then they had to set up a whole network of money mules”
IRS Criminal Investigation Division PART_OF Internal Revenue Service
The IRS Criminal Investigation Division is described as a department within the IRS.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“Within the IRS is a whole department called the IRS Criminal Investigation Division”
Get Transcript PART_OF irs.gov
Get Transcript was introduced as a feature of the irs.gov website.
Explicit Direction flagged Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“they made a new feature to irs.gov website called Get Transcript”
IRS Get Transcript breach RELATED_TO Anthem breach
Jack suggests that information stolen in the Anthem breach may have enabled the Get Transcript fraud, but he does not establish this as certain.
Uncertain Confidence 82% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“This would probably be enough to pass the KBA and do the Get Transcript.”
Kazeem USES Identity Protection Personal Identification Number
Kazeem obtained IRS IP PINs through the website and used them in filing fraudulent tax returns.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“and also get the PINs from the website to submit tax returns for those people”
Kazeem USES Get Transcript
Kazeem used the Get Transcript website process with purchased personal information to support fraudulent tax returns.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“Kazeem then used this information to do Get Transcript on the irs.gov website”
Internal Revenue Service USES Instant knowledge-based authentication
The IRS used instant knowledge-based authentication to verify users of Get Transcript.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“The irs.gov website is different. They use something called instant KBA, or knowledge-based authentication.”
In the song quoted by Jack, J-Creek identifies TurboTax as a tool used in the tax-fraud activity being described.
Explicit Confidence 88% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“He even said what tools he used, Turbo Tax.”
Identity Protection Personal Identification Number USES Get Transcript
The IRS issued IP PINs as an additional safeguard for IRS accounts after the breach; attackers later targeted the PIN-recovery process.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 26 Details
“we’re also giving them the opportunity to obtain an Identity Protection Personal Identification Number”
Podcast chart manipulation AFFECTS Apple Podcast
The episode characterizes podcast chart manipulation or algorithm hacking as a way to corrupt or alter the Apple Podcast charts.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 27 Details
“This is chart manipulation or algorithm hacking or something else.”
“These shows are doing something to break the charts, to corrupt it.”
Jison ASSOCIATED_WITH MD Monowar
Jison says that he learned podcast promotion from MD Monowar, whom he describes as his former boss and a leading promoter.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jison EP 27 Details
“Sir, in the past I learned from my boss.”
“His name is MD Monowar, sir.”
“everyone who learned about podcast promotion learned it from him”
ResultSource ASSOCIATED_WITH New York Times Bestseller List
The episode says ResultSource has historically been accused of gaming the New York Times Bestseller List and appears to have obtained placements by organizing book purchases.
Uncertain Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 27 Details
“clues led to a book marketing company called ResultSource”
“They have historically been accused of gaming the New York Times Bestseller List.”
“It appears this marketing company has figured out the algorithm”
Seth Godin AUTHORED This is Marketing
Jack says Seth Godin has a new book titled This is Marketing.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 27 Details
“Seth has a new book out. It’s called This is Marketing”
Apple Podcast SAME_AS iTunes
Jack identifies Apple Podcast as also known as iTunes and later treats the Apple Podcast app and iTunes as the same service.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 27 Details
“Over half my listeners listen to me on Apple Podcast, or otherwise known as iTunes”
“the Apple Podcast app, or iTunes”
Rakibul USES Artificial subscription and download activity
In the context of paid podcast promotion, Rakibul describes subscribing with Apple IDs; Jack presents this as the activity used to manipulate rankings.
Derived Confidence 88% · Rakibul EP 27 Details
“Sir, I subscribe the Apple ID on iTunes.”
“I started seeing some patterns.”
Podcast promoters offer their promotion services through Fiverr accounts.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 27 Details
“They all pointed me to their Fiverr accounts.”
“if you go on Fiverr and you search for podcast iTunes top rank, you’ll see dozens of people offering podcast promotion on iTunes.”
Rakibul says his promotion method involves subscribing with Apple IDs.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Rakibul EP 27 Details
“Sir, I subscribe the Apple ID on iTunes.”
Promoter USES Artificial subscription and download activity
The promoter explains a repeated subscribe-and-download process using many accounts to increase a podcast's chart ranking.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 27 Details
“Then stop the downloads, log out, and log in with a new Apple ID and do it again.”
“Fifty, sixty. Yeah. Sometimes thirty, forty.”
The unnamed promoter says he uses ten thousand Apple IDs for podcast promotion.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Promoter EP 27 Details
“Yeah, I have ten thousand Apple ID, I have.”
Sho Hag USES Artificial subscription and download activity
Sho Hag claims that his worldwide team promotes podcasts by subscribing, downloading, and listening.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Sho Hag EP 27 Details
“My worldwide [00:15:00] team, they subscribe, download, and listens.”
Rakibul says he performs the promotion through iTunes.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Rakibul EP 27 Details
“I subscribe the Apple ID on iTunes.”
The unnamed promoter describes carrying out the promotion in iTunes by signing in, subscribing, and downloading episodes.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 27 Details
“Click connect, sign in with an Apple ID, go to the podcast URL, subscribe”
“Clicking Get on all the episodes queues up all the downloads at once”
Unit 8200 ASSOCIATED_WITH CyberSpark
Unit 8200 headquarters is described as being located in the CyberSpark cyber-park.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Pm EP 28 Details
“First thing is we have the Unit 8200 headquarters, our collection agency.”