Tag: Credit Monitoring
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Experian Vulnerability Exposed Credit Reports
The credit monitoring giant Experian exposed credit reports to cyber criminals after its website was found to have a critical …
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Amtrak breached, some customers’ logins and PII potentially exposed
Amtrak, the national rail service for the US, has suffered a data breach that may have exposed some customers’ logins and other …
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US charges four Chinese military members with Equifax hack
The US has charged the Chinese military with plundering Equifax in 2017. The Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday released a nine-count …
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How to get your Equifax money and stay safe doing it
Following the enormous data breach of Equifax in 2017—in which roughly 147 million Americans’ suffered the loss of their Social …
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Post-Equifax settlement, NY updates data breach notification laws
The crows are coming home to roost after Equifax’s 2017 data breach, and over the past week, those crows have lobbed these projectiles: …
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Desjardins’ employee from hell spills 2.9m records
An rogue employee tore a 2.9 million-record-sized hole into his (now former!) employer’s hide, according to an advisory posted on …
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Credit Freezes are Free: Let the Ice Age Begin
It is now free in every U.S. state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity …
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Equifax: Hackers got personal data on Brits, too
Hackers who stole Social Security numbers and other poorly secured personal data for 143 million Americans from Equifax also got away with …
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FBI issues flash alert on Apache Struts vulnerability
Law enforcement is just beginning to understand the damage caused by a single, highly publicized software vulnerability that was labeled as a key reason credit reporting agency Equifax suffered a disastrous data breach earlier this year. The FBI is asking for help from the private sector to identify and track a group that recently was…
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Banking-focused phishing scheme hits inboxes in wake of Equifax breach
A group of hackers has been sending specially tailored phishing emails to online banking customers, stoking fears among an online population that is increasingly concerned with how cybercriminals could leverage the data stolen from credit monitoring giant Equifax. This specific phishing campaign, identified by U.S. Read full news article on Cyberscoop
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Equifax or Equiphish?
More than a week after it said most people would be eligible to enroll in a free year of its TrustedID identity theft monitoring service, big three consumer credit bureau Equifax has begun sending out email notifications to people who were able to take the company up on its offer. But in yet another security stumble, the company…
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