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Equifax still appears to have trouble wrapping its head around the concept of trustworthy software following its massive security breach. The company has launched its promised free credit report locking service, Lock & Alert, but there’s one overriding problem: at least initially, the mobile app associated with it doesn’t appear to work. The New York […]
Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg/Getty Images) Last week we brought news that the Internal Revenue Service awarded a $ 7.2 million contract to Equifax to allow Equifax to “verify taxpayer identity.” The contract was awarded days after Equifax announced it had exposed the personal data, including Social Security numbers, of about 145 million people. The tax-collecting agency […]
After its massive data breach and bungled initial response, Equifax is offering a free set of tools to protect your identity, but they have limits. https://media.wired.com/photos/59cec8d2618af92c588cf5b0/master/pass/Equifax-Protections-Final.jpg Feed: All Latest
On Tuesday, Richard Smith, the CEO of Equifax—the credit reporting agency at the center of one of the largest financial data breaches in recent memory—stepped down. According to a statement, Smith is to retire on Tuesday, but will stay on with the company as an “unpaid adviser” as the company searches for its next chief […]
Equifax’s Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin and Chief Information Officer David Webb have both left the company as it deals with the fallout from a months-long hacking campaign that compromised the personal information of 143 million people this year. Attackers took advantage of an unpatched server flaw to steal names, addresses, dates of birth, social […]
