Re: Equifax lost all your data. All gone. Bonus WTF Edition.
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Equifax Breach Response Turns Dumpster Fire
I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company’s public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau Equifax, which rather clumsily announced Thursday that an…
"The Web site that Equifax advertised as the place where concerned Americans could go to find out whether they were impacted by this breach is completely broken at best, and little more than a stalling tactic or sham at worst."
"Others (myself included) received a message that credit monitoring services we were eligible for were not available and to check back later in the month. The site asked users to enter their last name and last six digits of their SSN, but at the prompting of a reader’s comment I confirmed that just entering gibberish names and numbers produced the same result as the one I saw when I entered my real information: Come back on Sept. 13."
