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Equifax Identifies Additional 2.4 Million Customers Hit By Data Breach (nbcnews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the gift-that-keeps-giving dept.

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.

4 of 15 comments (clear)

  1. New government contract? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    Wonder how many no-bids they will score this time.

  2. 502 Bad Gateway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

    1. Re:502 Bad Gateway by msmash · · Score: 2

      Hi, We're aware of the issue. Some planned backend maintenance and upgrade is partly to be blamed for it. Things would be back to normal, if not better, in a few days.

  3. Jail by Major_Disorder · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.