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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'.
The breach led to a record settlement with the FTC, a dramatic downgrade in Equifax’s own credit rating, and close to $3 billion in expenses for the company as it restructured both its C-suite ...
The 2017 Equifax data breach was already extremely serious by itself, but there are hints it was somehow worse. CNN has learned that Equifax told the US Senate Banking Committee that more data may ...
2017 Equifax data breach – In 2017, Equifax Inc. announced that a cyber-security breach occurred between May and mid July of that year. Cyber criminals had accessed approximately 145.5 million U.S. Equifax consumers' personal data, including their full names, Social Security numbers , credit card information, birth dates , addresses , and, in ...
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.
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.
The 2017 breach was one of the largest affecting people's private information. Equifax to pay up to $700 million in breach settlement [Video] Skip to main content
An overwhelming majority of Americans have taken steps to protect their identity over the past year.