Security News > 2019 > March > Tech security at Equifax was so diabolical, senators want to pass US laws making its incompetence illegal
2019-03-08 02:33
Now Homeland Security committee sticks the boot in Credit-rating monitor Equifax ignored years of warnings and red flags before it was thoroughly ransacked in 2017 by hackers, who made off with the personal information of roughly 150 million Americans, Brits, and Canadians, according to another congressional probe.…
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