Posted on 09/07/2017 3:44:01 PM PDT by Mariner
Equifax, one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies, said on Thursday that a data breach left Social Security numbers, drivers license numbers and other sensitive information for 143 million United States consumers vulnerable to hackers.
Criminals gained access to certain files in the companys system from mid-May to July by exploiting a weak point in a website application, according to an investigation by Equifax. The company said that it discovered the intrusion on July 29 and has since found no evidence of unauthorized activity on its main consumer or commercial credit reporting databases.
Hackers were able to retrieve birth dates and addresses, as well as credit card numbers for 209,000 consumers. Documents with personal information used in disputes for 182,000 consumers was also taken.
Equifax said that some personal information for British and Canadian residents was also hacked.
The data breach at Equifax is not the largest. Yahoo disclosed in September 2016 that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, followed by a second disclosure three months later that a different attack in 2013 compromised more than one billion accounts.
Equifax said that, in addition to reporting the breach to law enforcement, it had hired a cybersecurity firm to conduct a review to determine the scale of the invasion. The investigation is expected to wrap up within the next few weeks.
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It was secure because of the "1" appended to the word.
Either that or someone who works for Equifax and has admin privileges sold all that data for a few million bucks.
As one of the 3 major credit bureaus, they have a lot of information about you, including all your credit cards and loans. You can check with them your credit worthiness and everything else they have on file about you ones a year for free. Same goes for the other two.
I don’t recall ever giving “Equifax” or any other “credit agency” my PERMISSION to compile a file on my personal information. I’m sure the lawsuit would get tossed if I sued them on “invasion of privacy” those grounds, but it might be worth a try anyway. In fact, if a lot of people did this, one or two cases might make before a sympathetic judge.
That’s not funny, but...
A lot of companies use Equifax under a 3rd party contract so this could be a big deal. Not sure.
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What kind of computer systems do they have in that place?
And three of their top execs sold between them $1.8 million in stock between the time that the breach was discovered and it was announced publicly. Each of them should fo a minimum of 10 years for insider trading.
The “cloud” is and always was bullsh*t. Somewhere there is a server and those data are on it. Where is that server? How is it secured? How many servers are those data on?
143 million head of its Flock of Sheeple.
Yes but hiring that foreign IT company to write and manage all that software sure saved Equifax a lot of money.
The breach, which was discovered July 29, includes sensitive information such as social security numbers, birthdays, addresses and in some instances, driver’s license numbers. The agency said 209,000 credit card numbers were exposed in the breach, which includes customers in Canada and the United Kingdom.
3 Equifax executives sold stock a few days before the cyber hack.
Does anyone else find it ironic that Equifax also SELLS credit monitoring and identity protection?
Kudos. That was my exact point on another thread about this topic.
About six weeks ago my wife notice a charge on one of our credit cards for a monthly Equifax report which we never ordered. The charge was not a payment to Equifax but to a company claiming it was an Equifax partner—but probably was not. We filed a fraud complaint.
Today we found a charge on one of those our accounts. It was a charge for TruthFinder which we never authorized. We filed a second fraud complaint.
I suspect those two instances of monthly charges were by the people who broached Equifax’s “security” to see if we noticed the charges.
My recommendation to all is to check your credit card charges every day and to take immediate action if you find any anomalies.
This one belongs to private industry. You can bet the Equifax execs make (or maybe now “made”) big buck$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Maybe the family silver of hacks. The Crown Jewels were handed over to the Chinese when the federal office of personnel management security clearance system was compromised.
Having your identity stolen sucks—knowing your country’s enemies have information on your entire family is worse...
No one has any idea how to pursue these crimes, and no one in the establishment even wants them investigated. The amount of collusion and fraud defies imagination. Fascism no longer parades around in virulent nationalism; it inhabits the ever-widening void between technological advance and transnational law.
I filled out the form they have for TrustedID. I do not know what good it will do me as they and others put my information on the internet for all to see!
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