Security News > 2017 > September > Equifax Suffered Data Breach After It Failed to Patch Old Apache Struts Flaw
2017-09-14 01:38
The massive Equifax data breach that exposed highly sensitive data of as many as 143 million people was caused by exploiting a flaw in Apache Struts framework, which Apache patched over two months earlier of the security incident, Equifax has confirmed. Credit rating agency Equifax is yet another example of the companies that became victims of massive cyber attacks due to not patching a
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