Security News > 2020 > February > Learn From How Others Get Breached: Equifax Edition

Time for a fresh edition of "Learn from how others get breached" focusing on Equifax.

If there's one thing that every organization should learn from the Equifax breach, it's about patching.

Based on the many reports about the Equifax breach as well as Congressional testimony, here's a timeline of notable dates concerning Equifax's data breach as well as its response.

Aug. 2: Equifax hires cybersecurity firm Mandiant to investigate the breach and alerts the FBI. Aug. 7: Equifax issues first public data breach notification.

Based on how Equifax got its defenses wrong, hopefully others can now better prepare themselves to repel such attacks.

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