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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.
Also at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune and others.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday October 10 2017, @04:20AM
We have been told for quite some time now about trusting an email attachment. You do so at your own risk. You must consider the source. If you blindly trust it, you may lose your computer.
This is clear notification to business to trust "confidential private information" at their own risk. They must consider the source. If they blindly trust it, they may lose their money.
I am fed up with people doxxing me then making do like its my responsibility for identity theft. If someone does poor research and loans money in my name to someone other than me, I hold it is HIM, not ME, that's on the hook for lost funds.
I hold its quite OK for a company to bill me in error, that's understandable as that's the way normal business is done, but if I should refute the charge, continuing to hound me for something I do not owe should be considered harassment. Subsequently dinging my credit rating should be grounds for a hefty defamation of character lawsuit.
However, immediate flagging of my account subsequent to this kind of activity for a heads-up is to be expected. If someone out there indeed is trying to snarl other people's affairs, the more he raises flags, the more likely he's gonna misstep and get nailed.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]