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2020-02-11 15:52:00 |
China denies it was behind the Equifax hack, as four men charged for data breach (lien direct) |
China has denied that it was behind the hack of Equifax in 2017, which saw the personal data of hundreds of millions of individuals stolen – including the names, birth dates and social security numbers for nearly half of all American citizens.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Equifax
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2019-07-22 19:56:03 |
700 million reasons for Equifax to remember to patch its vulnerable IT systems in future (lien direct) |
Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700 million in a FTC settlement following its 2017 data breach.
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2019-07-01 16:15:00 |
Ex-Equifax CIO, who knew about huge data breach, jailed for insider trading (lien direct) |
So, just what was Equifax doing during those 40 days between discovering it had been hacked and sharing the bad news with the world?
Well, now we know. Or at least what Jun Ying, the CIO of Equifax US Information Solutions, was doing.
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Equifax
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2018-10-19 14:55:01 |
Manager who worked on Equifax\'s breach website sentenced for insider trading (lien direct) |
Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu wasn't told he was working on Equifax's breach notification website, but when he worked it out he used the information for his financial advantage.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Equifax
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2018-04-04 13:27:00 |
Don\'t blame Panera Bread\'s security guy just because he used to work at Equifax (lien direct) |
Yes, we should be mad at Panera Bread for its lousy response to a serious security issue.
But things turn ugly when the masses begin to blame individually-named members of the security team.
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2018-03-14 17:16:03 |
(Déjà vu) Ex-Equifax exec charged with insider trading after selling $1 million worth of stock before data breach disclosure (lien direct) |
A former Equifax executive, who sold nearly $1 million worth of shares before the company's massive data breach was made public, has been charged with insider trading.
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2017-10-11 17:04:22 |
Equifax: Umm, actually hackers stole records of 15.2 million Brits, not 400,000 (lien direct) |
Equifax has confirmed that a recent data breach exposed a file containing 15.2 million UK personal information records.
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Equifax
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2017-09-19 11:33:58 |
Misleading headlines about Equifax\'s *earlier* hack (lien direct) |
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Guideline
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Equifax
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2017-09-19 09:13:03 |
Heads roll, as it\'s revealed Equifax\'s IT team knew it hadn\'t patched web app vulnerability (lien direct) |
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2017-09-14 08:48:43 |
Smashing Security podcast #042: Equifax, BlueBorne, and the iPhone X (lien direct) |
Equifax's shambolic response to its huge data breach, a scary-sounding Bluetooth exploit, and Apple's iPhone X comes with Face ID.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Javvad Malik.
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Equifax
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2017-09-12 13:58:58 |
How to protect yourself in the wake of the Equifax data breach (lien direct) |
David Bisson describes some of the ways you can protect yourself against identity thieves following the hack of Equifax.
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Equifax
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2017-09-12 09:11:05 |
Up to 44 million UK consumers may have had their identity put at risk after Equifax hack (lien direct) |
And don't imagine for a second that because you may have never heard of Equifax, or done no business with them, that you have somehow escaped from being affected by this breach.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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2017-09-09 09:22:35 |
Three Equifax execs sold $1.8 million of stock days after breach discovery (lien direct) |
Three Equifax executives sold a combined $1.8 million worth of shares just days after the credit reporting agency discovered a massive data breach.
But before it was made public.
David Bisson reports.
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Equifax
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2017-09-08 00:35:20 |
(Déjà vu) 40 days after discovering data leak, Equifax warns that 143 million US consumers could be at risk (lien direct) |
Equifax has announced that it has been hacked, and approximately 143 million US consumers may have had their names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses accessed by criminals. In some instances, driver license numbers have also been accessed.
143 million? That's just under half the population of the United States.
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2017-09-08 00:35:20 |
(Déjà vu) 62 days after discovering data leak, Equifax warns that 143 million US consumers could be at risk (lien direct) |
Equifax has announced that it has been hacked, and approximately 143 million US consumers may have had their names, social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses accessed by criminals. In some instances, driver license numbers have also been accessed.
143 million? That's just under half the population of the United States.
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Equifax
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2017-05-22 10:39:29 |
Rogues reset \'passwords\', steal W-2 info from Equifax subsidiary customer employees (lien direct) |
Computer criminals reset the "passwords" and stole W-2 tax information from customer employees of an Equifax subsidiary over the past year.
David Bisson reports.
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