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On Friday, Equifax announced that two top executives would be retiring in the aftermath of the company's massive security breach that affected 143 million Americans.
According to a press release, the company said that its Chief Information Officer, David Webb, and Chief Security Officer, Susan Mauldin, would be leaving the company immediately and were being replaced by internal staff. Mark Rohrwasser, who has lead Equifax's international IT operations, is the company's new interim CIO. Russ Ayres, who had been a vice president for IT at Equifax, has been named as the company's new interim CSO.
The notorious breach was accomplished by exploiting a Web application vulnerability that had been patched in early March 2017.
However, the company's Friday statement also noted for the first time that Equifax did not actually apply the patch to address the Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) until after the breach was discovered on July 29, 2017.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/equifax-cio-cso-retire-in-wake-of-huge-security-breach/
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday September 18 2017, @07:04PM
> it seems entirely likely that the judgements will drive Equifax bankrupt
They'll settle out of court with the DOJ for a ridiculously small amount, and people will be rewarded for a job well done.
Can we attack the real problem: Why the [bleep] is your SSN, DOB and address all anyone needs to completely impersonate you?
I thought we celebrated that 21st century thingy, a long while back. Some systems didn't get the memo...