Equifax, one of the Big Three credit reporting bureaus that maintains sensitive personal and financial information on just about every adult (and many children) in America, recently revealed that it was the victim of a data breach. An estimated 143 million people had their information...
Credit reporting firm Equifax announced Thursday the hackers that breached its servers exploited an Apache Struts security vulnerability, which led to the exposure of personal information belonging to more than 143 million consumers in the United States. While Equifax reported the breach occurred sometime around mid-May,...
Credit reporting firm Equifax (EFX) reported Thursday hackers had accessed Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and other vital personal data of 143 million people in the US. Little was revealed about the details of the cybersecurity breach, other than it stemmed from an exploited web application....