via CNBC: Equifax’s data breach on Sept. 7, 2017, stunned markets and American consumers, but where the data of those 143 million people disappeared to has remained a mystery. CNBC talked to experts, intelligence officials, dark web data “hunters” and …
In 2017, Equifax released a report claiming that they had undergone a massive data breach with up to 148 million US consumers being affected by the attack. In a nutshell, Equifax deals with the credit details of US consumers meaning …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Now, 10 months later, do they even know about it? Don’t laugh…. Consumer credit bureau Equifax disclosed very belatedly last September that it had been hacked, and that the crown jewels of personal data – including social security …
via politico: The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission charged a former Equifax software engineering manager with insider trading, prior to the disclosure that the credit-monitoring company had suffered a massive cybersecurity breach. Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu agreed to …
Anyone successful in getting a report from NCTUE via gizmodo: Remember all that trouble you went through to freeze your credit report after the massive and unforgivable Equifax hack? Turns out it was all for nothing, as security writer Brian Krebs reported Wednesday …
Lawyer who repped Equifax will run office that investigates Equifax Smith will have to recuse himself from numerous ongoing investigations that his office would normally lead, including the commission’s high-profile scrapes of data breaches at Equifax and Facebook, because of …
In a filing on Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission which was provided to congressional committees, the exact scope of the Equifax data breach was revealed. Just how much personal data was exposed in the Equifax breach of 2017? The sensitive, …
Why? Thanks to a last-minute change, an amendment to the bill (meant to punish Equifax) offered by its author, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo. That’s the basic gist of it. America is becoming a full-blown Corporatocracy. Senate Bill …
by sundance Equifax said exposed data includes: names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, addresses, driver’s license numbers and credit card numbers. (Via CNBC) Equifax, which supplies credit information and other information services, said Thursday that a data breach could have potentially …