back to article Stand up who HASN'T been hit in the Equifax mega-hack – whoa, whoa, sit down everyone

Global credit reporting agency Equifax admitted today it suffered a massive breach of security that could affect almost half of the US population. In a statement, the biz confessed that hackers managed to get access to some of its internal data in mid-May by exploiting a vulnerable website application. They remained on the …

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    1. JCitizen
      IT Angle

      Re: Customer Help Web Site No Help

      I wonder what's up with that? I am not getting that on Firefox 64 bit (latest version) on Windows 7?! I'm not getting an SSL warning on Chrome (latest version) either. However Web of Trust has a grey rating for that web site!! That should be strange, as they should have had plenty of time to gather a good rating by now??!!

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Might want to mention that you waive your rights to legal action if you enroll in their trustid protection.

  2. DagD

    those responsible for stopping the hacking have been hacked...

    Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen Røtern nik Akten Di Wik Alsø wik Alsø alsø wik Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër? See the løveli lakes The wøndërful telephøne system And mäni interesting furry animals The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used are fictitious and any similarity to the names, characters, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional. Signed RICHARD M. NIXON Including the majestik møøse A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"... We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked. Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti... We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked. Møøse trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA Special Møøse Effects OLAF PROT Møøse Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILLMøøse Choreographed by HORST PROT III Miss Taylor's Møøses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME Møøse trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG Møøses' noses wiped by BJØRN IRKESTØM-SLATER WALKER Large møøse on the left hand side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and "O" Level Geography by BO BENN Suggestive poses for the Møøse suggested by VIC ROTTER Antler-care by LIV THATCHER The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute. Executive Producer JOHN GOLDSTONE & "RALPH" The Wonder Llama Producer MARK FORSTATER Assisted By EARL J. LLAMA MIKE Q. LLAMA III SY LLAMA MERLE Z. LLAMA IX Directed By 40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS 6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS 142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS 14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA) REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON 76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY and TERRY GILLIAM & TERRY JONES

    1. JCitizen
      Devil

      Re: those responsible for stopping the hacking have been hacked...

      Where's that squirrel? It must be ALL his fault! LOL!

  3. GnuTzu

    Rumors of Cybergeddon

    I double checked the U.S. population. Check my numbers: 44%

    At what point do we get to file a class-action suit for the way financial institutions manage our identities.

    Oh, too big to fail, huh?

  4. Lorribot

    Not an IT cock up

    This, like all the others, is not an IT cock up. It is a Management, development and planning cock up done by people who where tasked with delivering a project and had no focus on security or on going management, but hey the delivered the project.

  5. Kiers

    CULPABILITY in TIMING of NEWS RELEASE

    LOOK AT THE TIMING: CEO releases "NEWS" about the hacking, in between TWO MAJOR HURRICANE EVENTS and an 8.1 EARTHQUAKE in MEXICO, after SELLING $2M of shares at a $20 valuation share price advantage (compared to after the fact; in other words the market valued the "cost" of hack at $20 per share lower, which insiders avoided).

  6. onebignerd

    Joke

    Is Equifax going to pay the costs of restoring our credit after our identities are stolen? DOUBT IT!!

    1. Antidrivel

      Re: Joke

      Your ID's were stolen a long time ago. Over 3100 breaches in 2017 so far with over 3.5 billion records stolen. (vigilante.pw)

      Equifax acted properly, as they have over 100 years. The media people who have been pushing the panic hype for two weeks will all wind up looking like fools.

  7. Antidrivel

    182,000 as of Sept 13. NOT 143,000,000 !!!!

    You media types have never changed since Hearst claimed the Cubans/Spanish sank the Maine.

    Drivel, some of it lethal.

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