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Equifax is in some hot water. Congress is now looking into Execs "hiding info from public".
Close to 150 million people had their information lifted by hackers.
Equifax said, in a document submitted to the Senate Banking Committee and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, that cyberthieves accessed records across numerous tables in its systems that included such data as tax identification numbers, email addresses and drivers’ license information beyond the license numbers it originally disclosed. -WSJ
The company claims the exposure was minimal.
Senator Warren off Massachusetts is not buying it.
"As your company continues to issue incomplete, confusing, and contradictory statements and hide information from Congress and the public, it is clear that five months after the breach was publicly announced, Equifax has yet to answer this simple question in full: what was the precise extent of the breach?" the letter reads.
Warren's letter then issues four demands to Equifax:
- A full and complete list of all data elements that Equifax has confirmed were accessed by hackers in the breach, and the number of individuals affected by the breach of these individual data elements. Please include information on when Equifax confirmed that taxpayer identification numbers, email addresses, and driver's license issue dates and states were accessed by the hackers.
- A full and complete list of all data elements that Equifax has reason to believe may have been accessed by the hackers, the potential number of individuals potentially affected, and the status of Equifax efforts to confirm if they were or were not accessed.
- A timeline of all Equifax efforts to determine the full extent of the breach, and summaries of any internal reports or information, or reports or information provided to Equifax by Mandiant or any outside entities describing the extent of the breach.
- The process used by Equifax to inform members of the public that taxpayer identification numbers, email addresses, and drivers' license information has been breached.
Equifax is not the only one to get hacked.
In a world of flashing headlines and information overload, let the fact that nearly half of America had sensitive information stolen by hackers - a breach which will have serious and lasting effects on both consumers and banks whose fraud prevention departments will be working overtime for years to come.
Will Congress get to the bottom of this? Equifax is obviously trying to minimize the damage it fesses up to.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-11/equifax-data-breach-larger-disclosed-congress-slams-hiding-public
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