http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84795.html
Credit Agency Equifax Cracked, 143 Million Consumers Exposed
This article talks about the following: Equifax suffered a major criminal data breach that exposed personal information of as many as 143 million consumers in U.S, sensitive personal data, including names, addresses, social security number, birth dates, and driver license number were exposed, Equifax took action as soon as they found out about the attack, Equifax responded well to the attack, they accepted full responsibility and immediately started to work on the issue, and finally consumers should check the Equifax site to insure that their data has not been exposed.
It will be interesting to see how things unfold in the upcoming months. Are there other companies that might be affected due to doing business with Equifax? Did Equifax have the right controls in place to prevent the attack or were they negligent? Also, will they be held accountable and what will the cost be?
Donald,
Again, One of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies was attacked by hackers who were able to access to more than 134 Million people sensitive information. According to the New York Times, this is the third cyber security attack since 2015 and and one of the largest risks to the personal sensitive information. This large organization has most of American sensitive information such as Social Security numbers and addresses (PII), which means that most of people in the US information are already hacked and saved in the attackers databases. I don’t believe that these organizations don’t invert on their IT department especially their capitals are people information.