Equifax - Now with 50% more data breaches!

strawman

strawman

So 143 million people (about half the adult population of the USA) have had their names, birthdates, and social security numbers, along with a lot of other personal account information, released due to a data breach by a major credit rating agency, Equifax.

This occurred over a month ago, and the press just found out.

They've set up a website to allow people to find out if their information was part of the breach, but due to the overwhelming response they've created a process that allows you to request the information, and it gives you a day after which they'll allow you to complete the request. So I signed up last night, and they told me I can come back next Wednesday to find out. It's odd, but at least the website is up and running.

https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/

May the odds be ever in your favor!
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
Yep, it said my info "may be compromised." I signed up for the credit monitoring as well.

Rowrbazzle.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

That's completely insane. So...Either you don't check if you're a victim, and you have no reaosn to go get involved in the class action suit, or you check if you're a victim, and you can't sue?

Any type of contract that says "and even if you get hurt by our fault, you can't sue us! Nyah!" should be illegal. That's beyond horrible.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Plus there's the fact that the checker website is even less secure than their usual website, doesn't have a matching domain registration, and several other things that make people uneasy.

--Patrick
 
Frank

Frank

You fucking irresponsible idiot, you fucking moron, you piece of trash, you missed a credit card payment 5 years ago and you think you deserve to own a home? Go fuck yourself. Also, someone in Russia and or India now has your SSN and all of your personal information. Sorry about that.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

Staff member
fade said:
Don't know if this is true but
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CNN, NPR, Business Insider, etc. are all reporting that story. Someone in the company knew about the data breach on Jul 29th (Saturday) and three major executives sell stock on Aug 1 & 2 (Tuesday and Wednesday) and you expect me to believe that none of those three heard about a breach as soon as it was known, let alone 2 - 3 business days later? That should be criminal either way.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

The executives thing is a known fact (executives kinda HAVE to report that stuff), the question is whether or not they knew of the breach prior to initiating their respective sales.

--Patrick
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

Staff member
PatrThom said:
The executives thing is a known fact (executives kinda HAVE to report that stuff), the question is whether or not they knew of the breach prior to initiating their respective sales.
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If it really did take 3 business days for the Information Solutions President to learn of a massive security breech, it should be criminal, even if it isn't. It shouldn't be legal to be that lax about the protection of consumer data, not for such a major monetary institution.
 
Cheesy1

Cheesy1

figmentPez said:
If it really did take 3 business days for the Information Solutions President to learn of a massive security breech, it should be criminal, even if it isn't. It shouldn't be legal to be that lax about the protection of consumer data, not for such a major monetary institution.
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"Hmm? Oh, a poor person, who cares!"
 
Covar

Covar

I feel like we're at the point where there needs to be some kind of criminal prosecution taken for these data breaches. Giving away 1 year of monitoring is just bullshit.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

A class action lawsuit has already been filed...in Atlanta, GA, which is where Equifax is based.
One of the people heading up the case is the former Governor of GA.
This could go badly for Equifax.

--Patrick
 
mikerc

mikerc

PatrThom said:
Plus there's the fact that the checker website is even less secure than their usual website, doesn't have a matching domain registration, and several other things that make people uneasy.

--Patrick
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Yeah, someone set up a website at securityequifax2017.com pointing out why the way the checker website was set up was a bad idea. And have now been proved correct by Equifax's twitter sending people to the fake site rather than the real one. They could just have easily have been sending people to a phishing site.
 
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