Equifax Data Breach could affect 143 million customers

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Equifax Data Breach could affect 143 million customers

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This is scary:
Equifax Inc., which supplies credit information and other information services, said Thursday that a data breach could have potentially affected 143 million consumers in the U.S.

The U.S. population was about 324 million as of January 1, 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which means the Equifax incident affects a huge portion of the United States.

Equifax said it discovered the breach on July 29. "Criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files," the company said.

Shares of Equifax fell more than 5 percent during after-hours trading.

Leaked data includes names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, addresses and some driver's license numbers. The company added that 209,000 U.S. credit card numbers were also obtained, in addition to "certain dispute documents with personal identifying information for approximately 182,000 U.S. consumers."
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This:

The U.S. population was about 324 million as of January 1, 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which means the Equifax incident affects a huge portion of the United States.

is a bit misleading. Of those 324 million, how many are old enough to have a credit card?

What I'm getting at is, 143 million consumers means that probably half, and maybe more, of the credit card-eligible citizens of this country could be affected.

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Credit Bureaus are evil. I could go on and on (and I will if you want--you shouldn't) about my struggles with Experian (basically what John Oliver said if you've seen the piece). If this effs up your life, expect ZERO help from them and lots of frustration.

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So this has affected basically all adults in the US

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go birds wrote:So this has affected basically all adults in the US
On the bright side, people who have already stolen my identity are about to be scammed big time.

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If we are all victims are any of us victims

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Equifax executives sold off their shares before alerting the public, so yeah, totally trust corporations:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... cyber-hack

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Someone post the Oliver clip, please.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRrDsbUdY_k&ab[/youtube]

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MrCrowesGarden wrote:Equifax executives sold off their shares before alerting the public, so yeah, totally trust corporations:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... cyber-hack
Technically isn't that insider trading?

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obucard wrote:
MrCrowesGarden wrote:Equifax executives sold off their shares before alerting the public, so yeah, totally trust corporations:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... cyber-hack
Technically isn't that insider trading?

Yes.

Also, this:

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