ATLANTA (AP) — Credit monitoring company Equifax says a breach exposed social security numbers and other data from about 143 million Americans.
The Atlanta-based company said Thursday that “criminals” exploited a U.S. website application to access files between mid-May and July of this year.
It said consumers’ names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers were exposed. Credit card numbers for about 209,000 U.S. consumers were also accessed.
The company said hackers also accessed some “limited personal information” from British and Canadian residents.
Equifax said it doesn’t believe that any consumers from other countries were affected.
Let me guess, they were all registered Democrats?
143 million Americans - that’s significantly more than half the adult population of the US. Do they all get a free year of credit monitoring? Bet those stocks just went up.
If anyone is using any form of their birthdate, address, DL# or SS# as a password for anything (never a good idea anyway), now’s probably a good time to change it.
And now this:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/busted-equifax-forces-hacked-customers-to-waive-right-to-sue-in-exchange-for-using-its-credit-service/
Wondering: Did any of Comrade Cockholster’s lenders ever check his Equifax, Experian, or TransUnion reports?
ETA:
And the lawsuits begin:
And this is damned interesting. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/three-equifax-executives-sold-stock-before-revealing-cyber-hack
And this: