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Equifax Ex-CEO Blames One Employee For Patch Failures
2017-10-05 11:18

Did Breach Result From a Perfect Storm, or Were Failures Business as Usual?Equifax ex-CEO Richard Smith asserts that a single employee's failure to heed a security alert led to them failing to...

Congress Grills Equifax Ex-CEO on Breach
2017-10-03 22:03

House Subcommittee Scrutinizes What Happened, Considers Next StepsAt the first of three Congressional hearings slated this week to examine the Equifax mega-breach, one Republican said of the...

Equifax, former CEO reveal more details about the devastating breach
2017-10-03 19:35

Mandiant has concluded the forensic part of its Equifax breach investigation, and the results are as follows: 2.5 million additional US consumers were potentially impacted, bringing the total to...

Equifax Says 145.5M Affected by Breach, Ex-CEO Testifies
2017-10-03 19:27

The credit bureau Equifax said Monday the information of 145.5M Americans, was implicated in this summer's breach.

Equifax Ex-CEO Blames 'Human Error, Tech Failures' for Breach
2017-10-03 08:33

Richard Smith Offers Explanation in Written Testimony Submitted to Congress"Human error and technology failures" led to the massive Equifax breach, the company's former CEO, Richard Smith says in...

Equifax Warned About Vulnerability, Didn't Patch It: Ex-CEO
2017-10-02 19:41

The security team at Equifax failed to patch a vulnerability in March after getting a warning about the flaw, opening up the credit agency to a breach affecting 143 million people, the former...

Ex-CEO Blames 'Human Error, Tech Failures' for Equifax Breach
2017-10-02 17:33

Richard Smith Offers Explanation in Written Testimony Submitted to Congress"Human error and technology failures" lead to the massive Equifax breach, the company's former CEO, Richard Smith says in...

Ousted Equifax CEO Faces 3 Congressional Hearings
2017-10-02 14:03

Board of Directors Investigation Reportedly Now Focusing on Chief Legal OfficerFormer Equifax CEO Richard Smith this week heads to Capitol Hill to testify about the massive breach suffered by the...

After Mega-Breach at Equifax, CEO Richard Smith is Out
2017-09-26 15:48

Following in CIO and CSO's Footsteps, Smith Has 'Retired,' Equifax Board SaysRichard Smith has exited the Equifax building. Following in the footsteps of the CIO and CSO, Richard Smith - Equifax's...

BREAKING: Equifax CEO Steps Down After of Massive Data Breach
2017-09-26 13:39

[BREAKING NEWS - CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES] - Equifax chairman and CEO Richard Smith stepped down Tuesday, just weeks after the company disclosed a massive data breach that exposed more than 143...