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After more than 145 million customer records were compromised in the Equifax data breach, the company’s stock plummeted by more than 30 percent. That amounted to market capitalization losses north...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes the recent Equifax breach will not make a significant difference in terms of tax fraud considering that many victims already had their personal...
Yesterday’s revelation that Equifax’s credit report assistance Web page was spotted redirecting visitors to malware resulted in the company temporarily disabling the page and starting an...
A Carousel of Badness: Fake Surveys, Fake Flash Players and Exploit KitsSecurity researchers have discovered websites run by credit bureaus Equifax and TransUnion were both affected by dodgy code...
A data sample provided last month by scammers trying to make a profit by claiming to have breached U.S. credit reporting agency Equifax may have been obtained from unprotected Amazon Web Services...
Two of the “Big Three” U.S. credit reporting agencies, Equifax and TransUnion, were hit by a cybersecurity incident caused by the use of a third-party web analytics script. read more
Here’s the last incredible-but-not-really Equifax security blunder: it appears that their Web site has been hacked, and made to redirect to site serving adware masquerading as an Adobe Flash...
Equifax has temporarily taken down one of its consumer-facing credit report services after the webpage was compromised and serving adware via a phony Flash Player download.
A security researcher noticed recently that an Equifax service designed for obtaining free and discounted credit reports had been redirecting users to websites set up to serve adware and scams. read more
700,000 British Consumer Records, Stored on US Server, Contained Sensitive DataCredit-reporting agency Equifax now says records exposed in the massive data breach it revealed last month included...