1. Here’s the official Equifax post about the massive hack.
2. Here’s the official site Equifax set up to see if your information was exposed. Beware of other sites masquerading as the real deal. I do not understand why they didn’t go with a subdomain, such as haveIbeenHacked.equifax.com or some such. More to the point, I don’t understand why you have to enroll in their service to see if you are affected, even if it is free.
3. Three Equifax execs sold almost $2 million of stock after the breach, but before the announcement. Even assuming they were not aware of the breach when they sold their stock, they will still benefit from a situation of their own making.
Not crazy about the way this is playing out.
UPDATE: According to this tweet, if you sign up with Equifax to check to see if your information was compromised, you waive your rights to sue Equifax or to be part of a class action suit. Can this be correct? [H/T @varunorcv]
DOUCHEBAGS!
“they will still benefit from a situation of their own making.”
Maybe not. This will be closely investigated. If anything regarding the hack got anywhere close to them (email, messages, people they work closely with) that would be text book insider trading. If caught, they could see prison.
We’re sorry. We were so busy creating our monopoly and controlling your life, we forgot to protect our data.
Have a blessed day
Trump’s in charge. They won’t get investigated.
You don’t have to enroll to see if you are affected. Click the “Potential Impact” button.
I laughed when I read “This is clearly a disappointing event for our company, and one that strikes at the heart of who we are and what we do” from the CEO. Disseminating our personal information is exactly what they do. He’s just disappointed they didn’t make a profit from it.
You’re suggesting that the over-worked, under-funded SEC, shrunk by every recent Republican administration and a victim of regulatory capture, has the will and the means to investigate and prosecute every instance in which a stock sale looks a bit fishy?
Nail, hammer.
Went to verify if I was affected. Yeap. Enrolled in their TrustedID program… NOPE! I apparently have to wait a week!!!! Glad no one is out there running around with my personal information, oh wait…. Thanks IRS for the hack two years ago, and now this.
Exactly. How that isn’t insider trading, I don’t know.
Nationalize this shitty company and fine those execs heavily.
The grammatical errors tell me the tweet is fake.
Nationalize this shitty company and fine those execs heavily.
We’re sorry. We were so busy creating our monopoly and controlling your life, we forgot to protect our data.Have a blessed day
read http://www.krebsonsecurity.com articles on this. the breach is being handled about as incompetently as can be. the site that one puts their info into returns the same info to gibberish inputs and gives different results for same info entered via a desktop vs a mobile browser.
Best action is to pay the 10$/bureau (except Innovis, which is free), at Experion, Equifax and TransUnion to freeze new credit info requests.
We’ve been forced to do this in the past. One question: if you can freeze and un-freeze your credit info, what prevents an identity thief with access to your info from doing it themselves, making you the one frozen out?
Nationalize this shitty company and fine those execs heavily.
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We’re sorry. We were so busy creating our monopoly and controlling your life, we forgot to protect our data.Have a blessed day
We’ve been forced to do this in the past. One question: if you can freeze and un-freeze your credit info, what prevents an identity thief with access to your info from doing it themselves, making you the one frozen out?
From Equifax website:
2). NO WAIVER OF RIGHTS FOR THIS CYBER SECURITY INCIDENT
In response to consumer inquiries, we have made it clear that the arbitration clause and class action waiver included in the Equifax and TrustedID Premier terms of use does not apply to this cybersecurity incident.
“they will still benefit from a situation of their own making.”Maybe not. This will be closely investigated. If anything regarding the hack got anywhere close to them (email, messages, people they work closely with) that would be text book insider trading. If caught, they could see prison.
If they have the right information, which is only SSN, and other common PII they can do this. That’s why its better to be pro-active and lock these down yourself. Hopefully there will be legislation banning the charges for freezing/unfreezing these accounts. (As well as a class-action that allows folks that had to pay about 30$ to freeze at the 3 big bureaus to recover this money from Equifax.)
Case of post-outcry T&C re-interpretation by Equifax?
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The grammatical errors tell me the tweet is fake.
Trump’s in charge. They won’t get investigated.
Case of post-outcry T&C re-interpretation by Equifax?
The grammatical errors tell me the tweet is fake.
I keep cash hidden around the house because i reallly believe that in my lifetime (I’m 48) we will wake up one morning and our checking and saving accounts will be gone.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/15/technology/security/kaspersky-bank-hacking/index.html
And, I’m not logging into that site with a new password yet. If my information is stolen then I’ll deal with it in a few weeks. I don’t trust a company that sells their stock off days before they get hacked, like the airlines that sold off their stocks the day before 9/11. Oh. Look what day it is.
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