Equifax lost all your data. All gone.
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{Major inexcusable security fuckup}
Equifax: lol oops sry iz okahy, here's site to fix things!
{puts up a cute sounding Equifax Security site called equifaxsecurity2017.com}
: Why the holy shit aren't you hosting this on your own domain, under your own SSL cert? Not only does the url SOUND like a phishing site, but you've opened yourself up to any number of people phishing this. Here, let me quickly register one--- securityequifax2017.com
{a few days later}
Equifax: ï‚™ oh hai perzon writing to our support tweeter, sry you might be haxxed, use our site to be safe & secure, r site is securityequifax.com
.... did you dumb motherfuckers just send someone to my phishing site?
https://i.imgur.com/lNaKolP.png
Yes. Yes they did. On September 19th, 2017 at 6:11pm-- and that Tweet is still there as of Sept 20th, 2017 at 12:45pm.
And the extra little cherry of shit on top? Equifax's own bio has the correct link.
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Addendum: there are dozens of replies to that Tweet, put up within MINUTES of it being sent saying "JFC YOU IDIOTS THAT IS THE WRONG LINK DELETE THAT TWEET!"
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@lorne-kates More proof evident that companies don't tend to do social media very well, for unfathomable reasons I'm sure...
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@sockpuppet7 How fast did the creator of that gif think people can read?
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Until yesterday:
This morning:
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@jaloopa did you try putting your monocle on?
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@jaloopa said in Equifax lost all your data. All gone.:
@sockpuppet7 How fast did the creator of that gif think people can read?
Apparently they thought people can read at least as fast as me, as I didn't have any trouble with the words. :P
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@pjh Rule #1 of data breach reports: it's always worse than they admitted at first. Significantly worse.
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Just realised:
@pjh quoted the Guardian in Equifax lost all your data. All gone.:
Equifax has admitted that almost double the number of UK customers had their information stolen
15.2M is not, by any stretch of the imagination, almost double 400K...
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@pjh "The credit rating firm said it is contacting nearly 700,000 customers in the UK to alert them that their data had been stolen in the attack, which was revealed in September."
They targeted 15 million. They got 700,000.
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@pie_flavor Equifax: the gift that keeps on givingâ„¢
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@timebandit like herpes.
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@benjamin-hall it burns when I PIN
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Equifax filed new impact numbers with the SEC:
Data Element Stolen   Columns Analyzed   Approximate Number of Impacted U.S. Consumers Name   First Name, Last Name, Middle Name, Suffix, Full Name   146.6 million Date of Birth   D.O.B.   146.6 million Social Security Number   SSN   145.5 million Address Information   Address, Address2, City, State, Zip   99 million Gender   Gender   27.3 million Phone Number   Phone, Phone2   20.3 million Driver’s License Number   DL#   17.6 million Email Address (w/o credentials)   Email Address   1.8 million Payment Card Number and Expiration Date   CC Number, Exp Date   209,000 TaxID   TaxID   97,500 Driver’s License State   DL License State   27,000
Government-Issued Identification   Approx. # of Images uploaded Driver’s License  38,000 Social Security or Taxpayer ID Card  12,000 Passport or Passport Card  3,200 Other  3,000
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@dcoder it's weird how it's 145.5 million SSNs but only 27.3 million genders.
Inb4
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@gÄ…ska I guess it's not a mandatory field on the entry form.
I'm more surprised at the number of addresses.
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@pleegwat addresses become outdated much more often than other personal data. They might've not had recent ones and counted those out, while counting the names themselves in.
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@pleegwat said in Equifax lost all your data. All gone.:
I'm more surprised at the number of addresses.
I'm more surprised at the number of drivers' licenses. Because any number other than 0 is really shocking. What possible need could a credit bureau have for obtaining (let alone retaining!) that information on people?!?
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@masonwheeler Obtaining it is easily explainable: Identity verification.
Why they retained it is likely just "mine all the dataz for sale later!"
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@e4tmyl33t said in Equifax lost all your data. All gone.:
mine all the dataz for sale later
Well, they're not wrong; the data was eventually sold…just not by them
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@gÄ…ska said in Equifax lost all your data. All gone.:
only 27.3 million genders.
Clearly they're not keeping up with the latest trends on Tumblr.
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@dcoder said in Equifax lost all your data. All gone.:
Email Address (w/o credentials)
That implies that people gave Equifax the credentials to their email address? At all? Well fuck me rigid with a teletubby…
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@dkf said in Equifax lost all your data. All gone.:
Well fuck me rigid with a teletubby…
Nevermind. I really don't want to know what caused you to choose that particular expression. Brain bleach, please!