Credit report company Equifax said Monday that an additional 2.5 million Americans may have been affected by the massive security breach of its systems, bringing the total to 145.5 million people who had their personal information accessed or stolen.
Equifax said the company it hired to investigate the breach, Mandiant, has concluded its investigation and plans to release the results "promptly." The company also said it would update its own notification for people who want to check if they were among those affected by Oct. 8.
The information stolen earlier this year included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses — the kind of information that could put people at significant risk for identity theft.
While Equifax previously said up to 100,000 Canadian citizens may have been affected, it said Monday that the completed review did not bear that out and it determined that the information of only about 8,000 Canadian consumers was involved.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 09 2017, @06:01PM (2 children)
<sarcasm>With these kinds of numbers, what's a million more or less? Hmmm?</sarcasm>
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday October 09 2017, @07:32PM
The penalty for those responsible has accordingly been increased by more than 1%.
I asked my kid, and she keeps pretending that $0 x N and $0 x (N x 1.01) may not result in a major corporate behavior change.
I'm glad we're working on reducing the time kids spend learning math.
(Score: 1) by MrLibrarian on Tuesday October 10 2017, @06:58AM
That line about a million being a statistic doesn't sound so bad until you realize that your part of the statistic.
Here's a manual on how to make a full-auto sub machinegun.
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