{"id":4920,"date":"2017-11-07T23:48:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2017-11-07T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:48:11","slug":"equifax-says-cyberattack-may-have-affected-143-million-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/2017\/11\/07\/equifax-says-cyberattack-may-have-affected-143-million-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Equifax Says Cyberattack May Have Affected 143 Million in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">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 cybersecurity attack since 2015 and and one of the largest risks to the personal sensitive information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">According to Pamela Dixon, the executive director of the World Privacy Forum which is a nonprofit research group, the chance of having your information leaked is about 50 percents if you have a credit report. That means the hackers were able to have the sensitive information of more that 65 million people who live in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">Hackers gained access to some files in the company\u2019s system last May and were able to define some weak points in the website software according to the company\u2019s consultants. So many unauthorized activities were found since then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">The following information were stolen such as names, birth days, addresses, and documents with personal information used in disputes for 182 thousand people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/07\/business\/equifax-cyberattack.html<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 cybersecurity attack since 2015 and and one of the largest risks to the personal sensitive information. According to Pamela [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-05it-strategy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}