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Big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax says it has removed third-party code from its credit report assistance Web site that prompted visitors to download malicious software disguised as an update for Adobe’s Flash Player software. Continue reading Equifax Credit Assistance Site Served Spyware
Equifax has temporarily taken down one of its consumer-facing credit report services after the webpage was compromised and serving adware via a phony Flash Player download. Continue reading Equifax Takes Down Compromised Page Redirecting to Adware Download
Equifax now believes 15.2 million people in the UK were affected by its data breach
Continue reading Equifax: 15 million more at risk
Hackers who stole Social Security numbers and other poorly secured personal data for 143 million Americans from Equifax also got away with the personal information of nearly 700,000 British citizens as well, the credit reporting company said Tuesday. A computer file containing 15.2 million records of British citizens was “attacked” during the hack, which began in May, Equifax UK Ltd. said in a statement. “Regrettably this file contained data relating to actual consumers as well as sizeable test datasets, duplicates and spurious fields, ” the statement went on. The company said it would be writing to a total of 693,665 consumers whose email address, phone number, driver’s license number or username and password combination had been stolen. They will be offered free credit monitoring and other identity protection tools. The exact breakdown is: 12,086 consumers had an email address associated with their Equifax.co.uk accessed. 14,961 consumers had portions of their Equifax.co.uk membership […]
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Continue reading Equifax: Hackers got personal data on Brits, too
Equifax Inc. said today an investigation into information stolen in the epic data breach the company disclosed on Sept. 7 revealed that intruders took a file containing 15.2 million UK records. The company says it is now working to inform nearly 700,000 U.K. consumers whose data was stolen in the attack. Continue reading Equifax Hackers Stole Info on 693,665 UK Residents
The credit bureau Equifax said Monday the information of 145.5M Americans, was implicated in this summer’s breach. Continue reading Equifax Says 145.5M Affected by Breach, Ex-CEO Testifies
They’ll be easy to lock and unlock… and they don’t exist yet Continue reading Equifax mea-culpas with free credit “locks” forever
Richard Smith — who resigned as chief executive of big-three credit bureau Equifax this week in the wake of a data breach that exposed 143 million Social Security numbers — is slated to testify in front of no fewer than four committees on Capitol Hill next week. If I were a lawmaker, here are some of the questions I’d ask when Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Continue reading Here’s What to Ask the Former Equifax CEO
Oracle released fixes for a handful of recently patched Apache Struts 2 vulnerabilities late last week. Continue reading Oracle Patches Apache Struts, Reminds Users to Update Equifax Bug
The Equifax data breach saga so far, a Google HTTPS warnings paper, cryptocurrency mining at the Pirate Bay, and bringing machine learning to passwords are all discussed. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, September 22, 2017