[WARNING] Major Data Breach reported at Equifax

[nlinecomputers]

Equifax says a giant cybersecurity breach compromised the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans — almost half the country.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/07/technology/business/equifax-data-breach/index.html

 

[phaZed]

Beat me to it. Yeah, the cloud is safe

 

[TAPtech]

Beat me to it. Yeah, the cloud is safe

Well... to be fair this is more "Yeah, the internet is safe "

 

[phaZed]

Well... to be fair this is more "Yeah, the internet is safe "

I was leaning towards "The secure-of-secure, non-front-facing service" should be more secure than "front-facing consumer cloud apps"

 

[Markverhyden]

Yawn.... Another huge breach? LOL!!!

It's a catch 22 situation so to speak. A big part of security is not putting all your eggs in one basket, I mean database. But breaking it up into much smaller blocks and systems drives up costs and decreases company performance.

 

[GTP]

So hackers have stolen what Google, Microsoft and Apple - and especially the NSA - have collected for the last 10~15 years?
Lol

 

[Sky-Knight]

It's only about half the US population at risk... nothing big.

 

[TechPJC]

https://www.howtogeek.com/209396/how-to-prevent-identity-thieves-from-opening-accounts-in-your-name/

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-cyber/equifax-reveals-hack-that-likely-exposed-data-of-143-million-customers-idUSKCN1BI2VK?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+reuters/topNews+(News+/+US+/+Top+News)

https://arstechnica.com/information...ck-exposes-data-for-143-million-us-consumers/

 

[HankArnold]

You should verify whether your data was potentially exposed. Also, Equifax is providing free ID Theft protection service free.

https://blogs.msmvps.com/hankshelp/wp-admin/post.php?post=1293&action=edit

 

[Encrypted Existence]

Not that it will stop this kind of thing from happening... but companies need to start being held accountable for this type of thing. They discovered the breach back in July AND WAITED ALMOST TWO WHOLE MONTHS TO DISCLOSE IT. Oh, and not to mention that their talking heads (executives) sold over 2 mil $ worth of their stocks BEFORE DISCLOSING THE BREACH TO THE PUBLIC.

http://thehackernews.com/2017/09/equifax-credit-report-hack.html

 

[nlinecomputers]

You should verify whether your data was potentially exposed. Also, Equifax is providing free ID Theft protection service free.

https://blogs.msmvps.com/hankshelp/wp-admin/post.php?post=1293&action=edit

You posted an admin login link.

 

[HFultzjr]

Looking forward to the next batch of bogus e-mails.
"Your Equifax data may have been breached....so on and so on.......
Please enter the following info in the form below (hacking site) and check if you have been a victim"
Logos, official looking stuff, etc.
Click here _______________

Ha Ha!

 

[Markverhyden]

You posted an admin login link.

This is the correct link
https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/enroll/

I wasn't in this one but was part of the OPM breach. So I got life time credit monitoring for free.

 

[HCHTech]

haveibeenpwned.com should just replace their database lookup with a single results page = " YES - Yes you have." Would probably save them money and be just as accurate.

 

[nlinecomputers]

There are going to have so many enroll that they can't even handle it until next week.

 

[Sky-Knight]

By the way, check the fine print. If you accept the free year of credit monitoring you give up your right to sue them.

And this sort of breach, a year isn't enough. You're exposed for life unless you close every account, and get new ones.

 

[Markverhyden]

Considering they already offer that as a service it's not a big deal. I also find it interesting that they will basically enroll anyone. Great way to develop new revenue streams.

 

[nlinecomputers]

By the way, check the fine print. If you accept the free year of credit monitoring you give up your right to sue them.

And this sort of breach, a year isn't enough. You're exposed for life unless you close every account, and get new ones.

Good point. I'll stick with my Zander Insurance.

 

[HCHTech]

Great way to develop new revenue streams.

Exactly. You can bet that you have to provide credit card details to get your free year, and that after that has expired you will be automatically renewed for the low, low price of $XX. That, and the liability waiver would keep me from signing up, that's for sure.

 

[JoeTech]

I feel dumb now because the article I read it from yesterday made it sound like all it did was check to see if you were exposed so I entered my information and I thought it was weird I never got an answer except to check back in a week. I certainly won't be going back to enroll now after ready this.