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Equifax Identifies Additional 2.4 Million Customers Hit By Data Breach (nbcnews.com)
Credit score giant Equifax said on Thursday it had identified another 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and driver's license information were stolen in a data breach last year that affected half the U.S. population. From a report: The company said it was able confirm the identities of U.S. consumers whose driver's license information was taken by referencing other information in proprietary company records that the attackers did not steal. "Equifax will notify these newly identified U.S. consumers directly, and will offer identity theft protection and credit file monitoring services at no cost to them," the company said.
Wonder how many no-bids they will score this time.
This car has been in 2.4 million additional accidents.
I member. Used to be, like, hey, go get Betty to fax this over to yabadaba, and I go like, sure, man, I like Betty, and I go and I see Betty, and she gets like all uppity that I watch her fax, so I'm like, wow, I wanna fax like you and she is like, no way, so I go back and say EMISSION ACCOMPLISHED/.
She fax? Yeah, she fax.
What is happening?
You owe us an explanation for the constant outages Slashdot!!
I've even been trying to get into Reddit, unsuccessfuly. What's the deal with Reddit anyway? Seems like just a bunch of random thoughts from idiots, scarcely better than Twitter...
All those poor people going around without their names, nobody knowing what to call them other than, "hey, you". Wonder how long it'll take for the gov. to issue new names for the nameless masses?
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Wouldn't it be simpler if Equifax just said "everyone"?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Someone needs to go to jail over this. Not some low level flunky either, someone with C_O or Director after their name.
Security will not improve until senior people are held accountable.
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
Well, with the government's not just tepid, but non-response to the breach (they decided to drop any action against Equifax), it's a sure bet that this will embolden not only Equifax, but other agencies and businesses that keep our "secrets" "safe". No punishment for being dicks about security sends quite a signal.
I think they're still holding back, I got a call from a scammer who knew my full name and telephone and mentioned debt. It's just a hunch but they likely got my info from the Equifax data breach. (UK)
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
Equifax reported today that 342 consumers were not hit by data breach