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In 2017, consumer credit rating giant Equifax suffered one of the country's largest data breaches, exposing the personal information of 147 million U.S. citizens, or roughly 40% of the population ...
A group of hotels that took, and later returned, millions of dollars in federal virus-bailout money is under investigation by securities regulators. Hotels criticized for taking virus money face ...
An Equifax internal audit in 2015 showed that there was a large backlog of vulnerabilities to patch, that Equifax was not following its own timescales on patching them, that IT staff did not have a comprehensive asset inventory, that Equifax did not consider how critical an IT asset was when prioritising patches, and that the patching process worked on an 'Honour system'.
Alternatively, you can contact Equifax by phone at 1-888-298-0045 to have your credit account frozen. You'll be asked some questions to verify your identity. Experian
Exactis became notable in June 2018, after a discovery by cybersecurity researcher Vinny Troia [4] detailed how the organization made nearly 340 million detailed records about United States citizens available on a publicly accessible server, [2] [5] [3] leaving those people at heightened risk of being impersonated, profiled or otherwise exploited through social engineering.
VantageScore is a consumer credit-scoring system in the United States, created through a joint venture of the three major credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion). The model is managed and maintained by an independent company, VantageScore Solutions, LLC, that was formed in 2006 and is jointly owned by the three bureaus. [ 1 ]
Equifax will pay up to $700M to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information.
The FBI MoneyPak Ransomware, also known as Reveton Ransomware, is a ransomware that starts by purporting to be from a national police agency (like the American Federal Bureau of Investigation) and that they have locked the computer or smartphone due to "illegal activities" and demands a ransom payment via GreenDot MoneyPak cards in order to release the device.