Equifax says it fixed a “technology coding issue” that sources say sent lenders faulty credit scores on millions of US consumers from mid-March to early April
and good ones Irina Ivanova / CBS News : Equifax issued wrong credit scores for “millions” of customers, report says Tweets: Jamie Righetti / @jamierighetti : credit scores are a scam and a form of ec...
Court filing sheds light on how US was able to attribute the Equifax hack to China and the techniques alleged state sponsored hackers used
Even for U.S. law enforcement, the Equifax hack was different. — Unlike in previous examples of apparent Chinese government-backed cyber-operations … Tweets: @shanvav , @decaturand , @profcarroll , ...
Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion gather “alternative” credit data like rental payments to expand credit to more people, but it may hurt those same people, too
Steven Melendez / Fast Company : Tweets: @pasternack Tweets: Alex P. / @pasternack : 2 years after the Equifax breach, the giant credit bureaus are increasingly mining whole new mountains of your *al...
After the Equifax breach, experts are puzzled about why data from 143M Americans didn't end up for sale online; one theory suggests a nation-state is using it
Kate Fazzini / CNBC :
House report finds that Equifax's security practices and policies were subpar and that patching vulnerable systems could have prevented last year's data breach
A House Oversight Committee report out Monday has concluded that Equifax's security practices and policies were sub-par …
Sources: two years before it was hacked, Equifax told the FBI of suspicions that company data including code and HR files may have been stolen by Chinese spies
The credit-reporting company went to the FBI with its suspicions—then the investigation stalled
US GAO releases report on how the 2017 Equifax hack occurred and the steps taken in its aftermath, concluding Equifax left information vulnerable on many fronts
GAO report takes us inside Equifax from March 2017 onward, showing how a few slip-ups led to one of the biggest breaches in US history.
A year after the Equifax breach became public, Congress has failed to advance any legislation and the Trump administration has halted a CFPB investigation
The Equifax data breach was supposed to change everything about cybersecurity regulation on Capitol Hill. One year later, it's not clear it changed much of anything. Tweets: @bobjherman Tweets: Bob H...
After Equifax breach compromised the identities of 145M Americans, there was anger in Congress, but the hearings and proposals have led to no real change
Martin Matishak / Politico :
At a congressional hearing, the interim Equifax CEO said he's not sure if the company is encrypting consumer data stored on its computers
Interim chief should have asked his staff ‘the day he took over,’ analyst says — Two months after Equifax Inc. EFX -.20% reported …