Tag: Equifax

  • Up to 44 million UK consumers may have had their identity put at risk after Equifax hack

    By now, you’ve no doubt read the news stories about the massive data breach at credit-reporting service Equifax which has put 143 million US customers at risk of identity theft. Hackers stole personally identifiable data including social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, and driving license information – alongside (in the case of some 209,000…

  • Equifax attackers got in through an Apache Struts flaw?

    Have the attackers responsible for the Equifax data breach exploited a vulnerability in Apache Struts, a popular open source framework for developing web applications, to compromise the company’s networks? Equifax has yet to share more details about how the attack was pulled off, but a report by financial services firm Robert W. Read full news…

  • Equifax Attack: Only a Matter of Time

    On September 7, 2017, the news became mainstream that one of the three main credit reporting firms, Equifax, had been compromised in a successful cyber-attack. The breach was discovered by the team at Equifax in late July, but it is not 100% known how long the attackers had privileged access to Equifax. Read full news…

  • Equifax backtracks arbitrate-don’t-litigate plan for punters

    Equifax has decided it will no longer try and impose arbitration on any of the millions of Americans who try to find out if they’ve been stung in its massive data leak. Following its 143-million-record megaleak, the company posted a Website meant to let worried people sign up for a credit file monitoring product –…

  • Equifax backtracks on complaint of forced arbitration

    Equifax has decided it will no longer try and impose arbitration on any of the millions of Americans who try to find out if they’ve been stung in its massive data leak. Following its 143-million-record megaleak, the company posted a Website meant to let worried people sign up for a credit file monitoring product –…

  • The Equifax Breach: What You Should Know

    It remains unclear whether those responsible for stealing Social Security numbers and other data on as many as 143 million Americans from big-three credit bureau Equifax intend to sell this data to identity thieves. But if ever there was a reminder that you — the consumer — are ultimately responsible for protecting your financial future,…

  • Equifax Gets Slammed, Removes Forced Arbitration Clause from Credit Monitoring Offer

    Equifax Monday announced changes to its free credit-monitoring offer for victims of the massive data breach it disclosed last week, after getting slammed for originally attempting to force people to sign over their rights to legal recourse in order to enroll. In a breach update, Equifax said it has removed certain language from the Terms…

  • Credit score company Equifax shares tumble another 8% after hack

    Credit score giant Equifax announced on Thursday that 143 million accounts were hacked. Since then, the stock has taken a nosedive as investors anticipate more fallout. Read full news article on TechCrunch  

  • Equifax Hack Exposes Personal Information of 143M Americans

    DAILY VIDEO: Equifax discloses a massive data breach that puts 143 million Americans at risk; Solaris and SPARC are in the crosshairs of the latest Oracle cuts; Dell EMC is still reeling from merger costs after year one; and there’s more. Read full news article on eWeek  

  • Equifax and beyond – where does enterprise data security go from here?

    The alarming Equifax breach has inflamed the news cycle. In my back and forth with a frustrated cybersecurity expert, we hashed out what individuals – and companies – can do to change enterprise data security. Read full news article on diginomica  

  • Lessons to Learn from Equifax Breach

    Every large data breach brings about rounds of angst from the media, a rush of innocent consumers wondering how to protect themselves and find out if their PII was, indeed, compromised, and apologies from and backlash for the company. The Equifax breach is not any different in those ways. Read full news article on IT…

  • FireEye pulls Equifax boasts as it tries to handle hack fallout

    FireEye removed an Equifax case study* from its website in response to a recently disclosed mega-breach at the credit reference agency. Equifax’s endorsement that FireEye’s tech protected it against zero-day and targeted attacks had more than the whiff of hubris about it once it emerged hackers had successfully pwned the credit reference agency’s systems and…

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