Monday, 18 September 2017
The recent Equifax data breach has prompted a congressional review of the company’s security practices. This follows the announcement that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is also investigating the company. What, at first, appeared to be a situation where Equifax was as much the victim as more than 140 million people whose data was potentially leaked, it now seems like the company didn’t take the most basic of precautions to safeguard our data. So far the inquiry has made the company look buffoonish. In one particularly jarring revelation it’s been reported that a server in Argentina, by which attackers could…
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