Chinese officials and state media on Tuesday condemned the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday for indicting four People’s Liberation Army (PLA) military officers for the massive hacking attack on the Equifax credit reporting agency, a 2017 cybercrime that pilfered valuable corporate data and personal information about over 147 million Americans. The four individuals named in […]
The Federal Government Sold Your Social Security Number for Five Dollars…
Do you remember back in 2017 when Equifax (the giant consumer credit agency) admitted that it had been breached? Hackers broke into Equifax’s databases and stole personal and financial records of 147 million people. And we’re talking EVERYTHING– names, addresses, Social Security Numbers… all the ingredients that an identity thief needs to destroy your life. […]
Equifax Admits Passport Numbers Were Stolen in Breach…
The fallout from Equifax’s 2017 mega breach continues. As was first reported by the Associated Press, the credit reporting agency’s lawyers sent a letter to the Senate Banking Committee last week revealing that thousands of images of passports were stolen in the breach. Consumers provided those images to the company to dispute inaccuracies in their […]
More Equifax Lies? Company Originally Hacked Five Months Earlier Than it Disclosed…
When Equifax first disclosed the shocking news on September 7 that its servers and some 143 million private account had been hacked, leaking everything from names, to addresses, to social security numbers, it stated in its press release that it had “learned of the incident on July 29, 2017” adding that “at which point…
U.S. Senator on Equifax Hack: ‘Somebody Needs to Go to Jail’…
Thirty-six U.S. senators on Tuesday called on federal authorities to investigate the sale of nearly $2 million in shares of credit bureau Equifax Inc (EFX.N) by company executives after a massive data breach, and one compared their actions to insider trading. The lawmakers signed a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice…