Nearly two weeks after Equifax revealed that data from 143 million people had been compromised, it turns out the company has been sending people to the wrong site to check if their data was ...
Equifax (NYSE:EFX) stock fell 2.3% and TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) stock dropped 2.5% after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte criticized the credit reporting companies’ pricing practices.
Equifax’s response to its data breach has been a total shitshow, something the company seems determined to remind us of each and every day. For nearly two weeks, the company’s official Twitter account ...
(NEXSTAR) – It’s a good time to check your junk mail. According to an email sent Monday, some people will be receiving another piece of the $700 million Equifax data breach settlement. The initial ...
In failing to correctly patch a known vulnerability and exposing the personal data of potentially 143 million Americans to hackers, Equifax made a security blunder of epic proportions — however, it ...
The breach of the credit monitoring firm Equifax, which exposed extensive personal data for 143 million people, is the worst corporate data breach to date. But, incredibly, the mistakes and the ...
I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company’s public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau ...
More than a week after it said most people would be eligible to enroll in a free year of its TrustedID identity theft monitoring service, big three consumer credit bureau Equifax has begun sending out ...
Equifax cannot seem to get it right. The credit bureau had been sending victims of a massive data breach to a bogus website that shared a similar address to the one it set up to help victims, it ...
One would think that having one of the most high-profile breaches in recent memory would make a company take security to heart, but Equifax is full of surprises. The latest is that its MyEquifax.com ...
After a cyberattack that potentially exposed the personal information of 143 million people, the credit reporting agency Equifax set up www.equifaxsecurity2017.com, a website to help people determine ...
Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today, Equifax ended up creating that exact situation on Twitter. In a tweet to a potential victim, the credit ...