US DOJ charges four Chinese intelligence officers with hacking Equifax; the breach was disclosed in 2017 and exposed financial records of 150M Americans
Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against four Chinese intelligence officers for hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax …
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Discussion
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@dnvolz
Dustin Volz
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Overlooked moment in the DoJ press conference today: Barr linked the Marriott breach to the Chinese. I believe that is the first time the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged a connection to Beijing. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@dalperovitch
Dmitri Alperovitch
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DOJ Indicts 4 members of PLA for Equifax hack (part of 54th Research Institute). One of the few publicly disclosed cyber actions from PLA since 2016 Cyber Agreement. Most activity in recent years has emanated from MSS and their contractors https://www.justice.gov/...
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@zackwhittaker
Zack Whittaker
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Equifax statement. (It would've been nice had Equifax at least acknowledged its own massive fuckups that led to the breach in the first place.) A House report in 2018 that the breach was “entirely preventable” had Equifax bothered to patch its systems. https://techcrunch.com/... …
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@swiftonsecurity
@swiftonsecurity
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Equifax stole your data, China just copied it without paying them.
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@hshaban
Hamza Shaban
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“The attack on Equifax was an attack on US consumers as well as the United States” -Equifax, the company that collected the data in the first place, without anyone's permission, and then failed to safeguard it, and this whole thing was completely preventable.
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@vermontgmg
Garrett M. Graff
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DOJ announcement of Chinese hackers ties together whole series of state-sponsored data thefts: OPM, Marriott, Anthem, and Equifax. Huge pool of data, will take decades to undo damage to US intelligence.
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@sentoomey
Senator Pat Toomey
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The Chinese gov. hacked & stole the private data of millions of Americans, including over 5.5 million Pennsylvanians. This reckless, unacceptable, & brazen disregard for the rule of law must not stand. I fully support @TheJusticeDept's indictments today. https://apnews.com/...
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@ajitpaifcc
Ajit Pai
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You don't say. “[I]n a single breach, the [People's Liberation Army of China] obtained sensitive personally identifiable information for nearly half of all American citizens.” From @TheJusticeDept indictment of four individuals involving @Equifax hack. https://www.justice.gov/...…
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@repjackbergman
Rep. Jack Bergman
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With today's report about China's involvement in the @Equifax breech, we must pass the HACT Act, that I introduced w/@RepAndyKimNJ, to protect Americans from cyberattacks. Enough is enough! Cc:@JacksonLeeTX18 @RepValDemings https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@repandybiggsaz
Rep Andy Biggs
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AG Barr & his team at the DOJ are working tirelessly to protect American interests - especially in the face of severe IP & data theft from China. These Chinese efforts must stop, & I am pleased to see the @realDonaldTrump administration taking action. https://www.wsj.com/...
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@merlemaigre
Merle Maigre
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“Equifax employed the username ‘admin’ and the password ‘admin’ to protect a portal used to manage credit disputes,” it reads. #howlongisyourpassword https://twitter.com/...
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@kennwhite
Kenn White
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“PLA...attackers ran approximately 9,000 [SQL] queries on Equifax's system. [Then] created an archive containing 49 directories. Once created...split it into 600MB segments which were then downloaded from the Equifax network to a Dutch server via HTTP.” https://www.justice.gov/..…
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@selectedwisdom
Clint Watts
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Indictment @FBI against PLA contains good cyber forensic work. Some interesting notes, time breach to detection/removal seems be +/- 45 days, took 2+ years for this indictment, imagine how many attacks conducted by these 4 & 10000s of hacker in meantime https://www.justice.gov/..…
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@senwarren
Elizabeth Warren
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The @Equifax data breach that compromised 145 million Americans' personal info is a national security nightmare: a hostile foreign attack on a giant US corporation that, without consent, holds all of our personal data - & lacks incentive to keep it safe. https://www.nytimes.com/.…
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@swiftonsecurity
@swiftonsecurity
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Equifax is not a victim they're fucking co-conspirators
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@emptywheel
@emptywheel
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Q: I don't dispute that it does, but how does Equifax have economic value but stolen Democratic fundraising information does not?
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@dnvolz
Dustin Volz
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Prosecutors said PLA's 54th Research Institute—traditionally focused on supporting electronic warfare akin to Cyber Command as opposed to cyber espionage—was behind the hack, an indication the group's “missions may be evolving,” @EBKania said. https://www.wsj.com/...
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@robertmaguire_
Robert Maguire
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Your regular reminder that Equifax still exists. Nearly everyone who was running the company when it allowed a breach of 143 million Americans' personal data is still rich, and their former lawyer is in charge of the office at the FTC that's supposed to investigate them https://t…
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@alfredwkng
@alfredwkng
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Update: Equifax's CISO tells me that even if they had patched that vulnerability, it's possible that the breach still would've happened, given how sophisticated the Chinese military hackers are https://www.cnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@alex
@alex
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I can't believe that Equifax is still in business https://twitter.com/...
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@profcarroll
@profcarroll
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Equifax should be in bankruptcy court, decimated by legal exposure. We watched Cambridge Analytica go belly up shedding its liabilities while Equifax seems incompetent yet invincible? (Answer: the credit agency triopoly and lack of national data rights.)
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@ridt
Thomas Rid
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Hello 👋 whatever your spy OPSEC—we will hunt you down, and send your mugshot on a WANTED poster to all your friends https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
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@kimzetter
Kim Zetter
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You can't say the PLA hackers are lazy, but Equifax certainly didn't make it hard for them https://twitter.com/...
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@hshaban
Hamza Shaban
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1)Equifax collects data about hundreds of millions of Americans without our consent and there is no “opting out” 2)Equifax failed to patch a known vulnerability which is how hackers accessed this data 3)Nothing about how data brokers operate has changed https://www.washingtonpost…
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@senatorromney
Senator Mitt Romney
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The Equifax hack is yet another example of China's commitment to data theft. A warning to our allies: remember the inherent threat that accompanies incorporating Chinese technology into your infrastructure. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@alfredwkng
@alfredwkng
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In a statement, Equifax's CEO said that it was “increasingly difficult” to protect against nation-state hackers. Just a reminder that Equifax's hack happened because of a months-old vulnerability that it failed to patch, not a sophisticated 0-day: https://www.cnet.com/...
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@kimzetter
Kim Zetter
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The timing of this makes me wonder if DoJ intentionally withheld going public with the indictment until after Equifax reached its settlement agreement https://www.ftc.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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The indictment is here: https://www.scribd.com/... Nothing new on a first read. It mostly echoes the findings of a 2018 GOA report: https://www.gao.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
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@alexstamos
Alex Stamos
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Some excellent work by the FBI and, I assume, IC partners like NSA/CYBERCOM to provide some narrative and attribution for the Equifax hack. We are still missing a critical function: an NTSB style report on the technical, operational and leadership failures that got us here. https…
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@joeuchill
Joe Uchill
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Equifax becomes the latest example of protecting privacy and customer security at scale turning into an issue of national security.
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@privacyproject
@privacyproject
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From the @nytimes newsroom: “The nine-count indictment accused the Chinese military of hacking into the company's computer networks, maintaining unauthorized access to them and stealing sensitive, personally identifiable information,” reports @ktbenner https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@shashj
Shashank Joshi
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Interesting shift of recent years is how US officials have tried to stigmatise cyber-espionage against “personally identifiable information”, putting it on par with theft of commercial secrets and election interference. Recall that Michael Hayden called it “honourable espionage”.…
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@iblametom
Thomas Brewster
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US published images of the defendants in the Equifax hack indictment, two in their Chinese military uniform... https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@ericgeller
Eric Geller
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FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich: “This is the largest theft of sensitive PII by state-sponsored hackers ever recorded.”
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@ericgeller
Eric Geller
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Bowdich admits that the FBI likely won't be able to apprehend these hackers any time soon. “We'll keep putting pressure on these bad actors, making sure they understand the risks and the consequences of their actions.”