The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever and was handled poorly by the company
Social security numbers … Phil Windley / Phil Windley's Technometria : Equifax and Correlatable Identifiers Guise Bule / Hacker Noon : Lies & Extortion: How Equifax, Fire Eye & The Darknet Threw Oil On The Breach Fire Lucky / One Mile at a Time : How To See If You Were Impacted By Equifax's Major “Cybersecurity Incident” Josh Smith / Gotta Be Mobile : How to Check if Your SSN Is in Equifax Hack & What to Do Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing : Equifax waited 5 weeks to admit it had doxed 44% of America, did nothing to help us while its execs sold stock DSLreports : Forum Topic: Equifax Hacked, Data of 143M People Exposed Chris Morran / Consumerist : Equifax Already Being Sued Over Massive Breach; Company Criticized For Amateurish Response To Theft Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Equifax's stock is plummeting after it reported a massive security breach MacDailyNews : Equifax's latest breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever Tweets: Eric Schneiderman / @agschneiderman : After conversations w my office, @Equifax has clarified its policy re: arbitration. We are continuing to closely review.pic.twitter.com/WcPZ9OqMcL Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : Just wow. If you enter “Test” and “123456” on Equifax's hack checker page, it says your data has been breached.pic.twitter.com/cTjTs7Frjv Eric Schneiderman / @agschneiderman : This language is unacceptable and unenforceable. My staff has already contacted @Equifax to demand that they remove it. https://twitter.com/... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : PSA: If you check Equifax's site to see if your data was stolen, you *waive your rights* to sue Equifax or be part of a class action suit.pic.twitter.com/p4AlmmLQ3r Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : OK — finally some clarity. Equifax explains its arbitration policy. http://twitter.com/... @briankrebs : Equifax breach response turns into a giant dumpster fire http://krebsonsecurity.com/... < Analysis of arguably the worst breach response ever Steve Ragan / @steved3 : Yes.. I've seen the Onion domain. Yes, I know they claim responsibility for the Equifax hack. No there is no proof. No I don't believe them. Susan J. Fowler / @susanthesquark : Equifax should have to pay the credit freezing fees ($30) of every person whose information was compromised in the breach. Elizabeth Dwoskin / @lizzadwoskin : Equifax now saying that the arbitration applied only to free credit monitoring, not to the cyber incident @susanthesquark https://twitter.com/... Mitch Garnaat / @garnaat : Not only was the site running Wordpress but there was a publicly-accessible user database available. FFS. http://twitter.com/... Dan Tentler / @viss : equifax appears to have 618 domains, spread across 493 perimeter hosts on ipv4. and I bet there's more I didn't find technical debt anyone? Heather Havrilesky / @hhavrilesky : Even if unenforceable, the audacity and recklessness we're seeing from Equifax boggles the mind. http://twitter.com/... Kevin C. Tofel / @kevinctofel : Equifax breach: 144M US people affected. 22.8% of US <= 18, leaving 250M likely w/credit. Actual impact then: roughly 57.6% of US consumers. John Herrman / @jwherrman : identity theft is a classic and *massive* externality, a lot like pollution http://abcnews.go.com/... J-Strizzle / @jstrauss : Every co needs to be a tech co now, but most still marketing driven. What good eng wants to be a corp afterthought? http://www.techmeme.com/... Anil Dash / @anildash : It would be absurdly amusing how incompetent Equifax is, if it weren't also criminally negligent with all our data. http://arstechnica.com/... http://twitter.com/...