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didn't think eq could get any worse, yet they have outdone themselves again.. Wonder what kinda monitoring and what not they are going to have to offer among law suts, etc.
The reality is that any large enough company, with data perceived to be valiuable, is going to get targetted and, almost certainly, sooner or later will be successfully hacked. It's hard to keep lots of machines up to date all the time, and ensure that all of your staff are carrying out proper procedures all the time. To me, like suffering fraud on a credit card, it's going to be part of life. What matters is how easy it is to pick up the pieces later.
@Anonymous wrote:I came here to post about this... so here's another article https://a.msn.com/r/2/AArtjNI?m=en-us
This article says that "[Eq] said there was no evidence of a breach into its core consumer or commercial credit reporting databases." Not sure which 143m were stolen then...
That just means credit reports themselves weren't accessed. Names, SSN's, DOB's, and everything that ties you to your report was.
It gets better. 3 executives sold 1.8 million in stock after the breach was discovered:
Insider trading, anyone?
Got bit by this...
Though they have an odd check/entrollment procedure.. you have to wait until a set date to enroll...
-J
@DeeBee78 wrote:It gets better. 3 executives sold 1.8 million in stock after the breach was discovered:
Insider trading, anyone?
That timing doesn't seem at all suspicious.
... and adding gas to the fire, the link they've given out for consumers to check if their info was potentially impacted doesn't do that:
https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/potential-impact/
Clicking the 'Check Potential Impact' button serves a form that asks for last name and last 6 digits of your social security number. When I enter this info and click continue, all I get is a message that says:
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Thank You
Your enrollment date for TrustedID Premier is:
09/13/2017
Please be sure to mark your calendar as you will not receive additional reminders. On or after your enrollment date, please return tofaq.trustedidpremier.com and click the link to continue through the enrollment process.
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... which doesn't address whether my info has been impacted. The link in the message just serves a general info page. Not cool.
@longtimelurker wrote:The reality is that any large enough company, with data perceived to be valiuable, is going to get targetted and, almost certainly, sooner or later will be successfully hacked. It's hard to keep lots of machines up to date all the time, and ensure that all of your staff are carrying out proper procedures all the time. To me, like suffering fraud on a credit card, it's going to be part of life. What matters is how easy it is to pick up the pieces later.
There is no excuse for non-encypted data though.. I really hope they just got the encrypted stuff although it appears equifax probably still runs on an AS400 or whatever so I wouldn't be shocked if it wasn't encrypted. You can tell they are running on an old not relational DB by many things such as split files, files to big, among many other things . Wouldn't personally mind if this put them out of business as most would agree they are the worse of the big CRA's in every aspect of the business.. Lawsuits are bound to follow. Most likely they will survive, but this is worse than any target or home depot or whatever data breach for 100 fold. As most likely it impacted anyone with a credit file as the other 2/3rds or whatever of Americans it didn't touch probably are to young to have credit. I work in IT as well and yes hacking is a daily thing as we have TONS of attempts at our systems per day for any company really. Whether they were at fault of not will certainly be to follow as I am sure our wonderful gov't will get involved and have hearing on this one lol.
@DeeBee78 wrote:It gets better. 3 executives sold 1.8 million in stock after the breach was discovered:
Insider trading, anyone?
Somehow I think the Securities and Exchange Commission will be looking into this and they will be prosecuted as that is inside information if it is true.