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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 class action lawsuit filed in January 2019 claims Equifax used "admin" as both password and username for a portal with sensitive information.
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'.
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The Equifax breach compromised the personal information of as many as 145.5 million people. [9] In 2019, Eric and his firm helped secure a ruling for consumers that they could pursue a nationwide claim for negligence and negligence per se against Equifax for failing to adequately secure their personal information. [10]
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According to a recent report by the Federal Trade Commission, 1 in 20 Americans have meaningful errors on their credit reports that need to be corrected. One major credit reporting bureau just ...
Morgan & Morgan filed a class action lawsuit regarding the Equifax data breach that occurred in 2017. [13] [14]In 2018, a class-action lawsuit was initiated against Exactis by law firms Morgan & Morgan, DiCello Levitt & Casey, and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, following a data breach that allegedly impacted approximately 230 million Americans and 110 million businesses.