Researchers bought 228 phones from PropertyRoom.com, a top auction house for US police departments, and found many had not been wiped and had no PIN or passcode
Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without … Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange . Tweets: @mattjay , @distrib...
Up until late December 2022, hackers were using a flaw in Experian's site to get anyone's entire credit report using only their name, address, birthday, and SSN
Reports of hijacked accounts and analysis of Experian's authentication flow reveal poor security at the credit bureau, after PIN reset flaws were found in 2021
Experian South Africa CEO claims someone posing as a client tricked the company into giving up personal information of an estimated 24M SA citizens in May
Experian South Africa CEO Ferdie Pieterse downplayed the seriousness of a data breach at his company which exposed the personal details of 23.4 million South Africans.
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...
How credit agencies like Experian use fear to pitch online identity protection services of questionable value and with onerous ToS including arbitration clauses
David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times : Tweets: @briankrebs , @troyhunt , and @mississippiago Tweets: @briankrebs : http://www.latimes.com/... Experian et al want to sell you FUD. It's all out there for ...
Experian tool to retrieve credit freeze PIN relies on just four pieces of basic personal information for authentication, inadequate given widespread leaks
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Former employees say Experian's efforts to improve security slipped after the departure of CIO John Finch
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Tweets: @futurecrimes , @hypatiadotca , @ekoivune , @dangillmor , @ncweaver and @kashhill Tweets: Marc Goodman / @futurecrimes : At @Experian, culture of poor morale...
Experian reports data breach affecting personal information including social security numbers of about 15M T-Mobile customers
Experian reports data breach; more than 15M T-Mobile customers affected — Global information services group Experian announced that one of its business units has been hacked.