Security News > 2018 > December > Conflicted External Auditors at Heart of Equifax Data Breach
2018-12-13 17:49
Equifax hired financial auditors and IT security auditors from different divisions of Ernst & Young, creating conflicts of interest that may have disincentivized both auditing teams from reporting problems that eventually led to the company’s 2017 data breach.
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