A Brief History Of Equifax Security Fails

"The leak of data on as many as 143 million Americans, announced by Equifax yesterday, was not the first rodeo for the credit monitoring and (irony alert) breach recovery firm. It's had problems protecting its customers' information dating back years.

In one case, it had to change its ways following a class action lawsuit over an alleged lapse in security. That suit related to a May 2016 incident in which Equifax's W-2 Express website had suffered an attack that resulted in the leak of 430,000 names, addresses, social security numbers and other personal information of retail firm Kroger. Lawyers for the class action plaintiffs argued Equifax had "wilfully ignored known weaknesses in its data security, including prior hacks into its information systems."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/09/08/equifax-data-breach-history/#717e5307677c

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