{"id":4924,"date":"2017-11-07T23:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2017-11-07T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:50:47","slug":"equifax-ceo-abruptly-retires-following-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/2017\/11\/07\/equifax-ceo-abruptly-retires-following-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Equifax CEO Abruptly Retires Following Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">The CEO and Chairman of Equifax Richard Smith retired suddenly Tuesday after the company\u2019s CEO and Chairman of Equifax, credit-reporting service\u2019s data breach that affected more than 143 million people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">The cmopnay\u2019s board anounced that the retirement is effective and the 57-year old is an ex CEO and Chairman. Richard Smith became the Chairman and the CEO in the year of 2005 after a 22 rears career at General Electric in senior roles. However, He was schedule to appear at the hearing of the Senate Banking Committee next month, according to CNBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in .25in 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">The breach has launched multiple investigations, including with the Department of Justice in Atlanta and the Federal Trade Commission. The company reported that its Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer retired earlier this month.<\/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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/88340-equifax-ceo-abruptly-retires-following-data-breach\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: #222222\">https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/88340-equifax-ceo-abruptly-retires-following-data-breach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO and Chairman of Equifax Richard Smith retired suddenly Tuesday after the company\u2019s CEO and Chairman of Equifax, credit-reporting service\u2019s data breach that affected more than 143 million people. The cmopnay\u2019s board anounced that the retirement is effective and the 57-year old is an ex CEO and Chairman. Richard Smith became the Chairman and [&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":[715997],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-06-project-portfolio-management","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}