IRS Suspends $7 Million Contract With Equifax After Malware Discovered (cbsnews.com)

After malware was discovered on Equifax's website again, the IRS decided late Thursday that it would temporarily suspend the agency's $7.1 million data security contract with the company. CBS News reports: In September, Equifax revealed that it had exposed 143 million consumer files -- containing names, addresses, Social Security numbers and even bank account information -- to hackers in an unprecedented security lapse. The number of consumer potentially affect by the data breach was later raised to 145.5 million. The company's former CEO blamed a single careless employee for the entire snafu. But even as he was getting grilled in Congress earlier this month, the IRS was awarding the company with a no-bid contract to provide "fraud prevention and taxpayer identification services." "Following new information available today, the IRS temporarily suspended its short-term contract with Equifax for identity proofing services," the agency said in a statement. "During this suspension, the IRS will continue its review of Equifax systems and security." The agency does not believe that any data the IRS has shared with Equifax to date has been compromised, but the suspension was taken as "a precautionary step."

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The summary for this article contains a dead link labeled "discovered".

Yesterday, Slashdot had these two articles:
First at 11:21 AM, this first article.
Then at 12:39 PM, this second article.

Apparently Slashdot removed the second of those two articles, since the second one was pretty much a duplicate of the first. But Google cached it, and the cached article is here.

So now you know where to look, to read the "discovered" article that the summary references.