Filing: credit reporting giant TransUnion discloses a data breach affecting 4.4M+ customers' personal info but claims “no credit information was accessed”
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A profile of Hank Asher, the “father of data fusion” who died in 2013 after initiating a vast shift in privacy norms through his data mining software companies
McKenzie Funk / New York Times : X: @fighto , @badassdogooder , @wolfiechristl , and @mckenziefunk X: Paul Shapiro / @fighto : An absolutely insane story. Should be made into a movie. https://www.nyt...
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...
TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, plans to provide credit scores for individuals applying for loans on blockchain-based protocols
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk :
Credit rating giant TransUnion plans to acquire digital identity verification company Neustar for $3.1B in cash
Todd Spangler / Variety : Source: Neustar .
FinLocker, whose software helps consumers expedite the mortgage approval process, raises $19.8M Series A and announces a commercial agreement with TransUnion
FinLocker, a Clayton-based financial technology company, has raised $19.8 million in venture capital and reached a commercial agreement with a major credit bureau.
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...
Credit Karma acquires Noddle, a UK-based credit reporting service with 4 million users owned by TransUnion, to expand beyond the US and Canada
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
How criminals accessed TransUnion's TLO mass-monitoring tech via a client's rogue employee to steal identities, and how they were caught using Nest cam footage
Thomas Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @iblametom , @truthwrite , @tedonprivacy , and @zmre Tweets: Thomas Brewster / @iblametom : So, this is an insane story, so I'm going to do a quick thread. This sto...