Security researchers have found gross deficiencies on the Equifax Argentina site, including using "admin" as both the username and password for an employee web portal designed to let employees in the country manage credit report disputes from consumers, cyber-crime blogger Brian Krebs wrote on his website.
The credit report provider last week announced it suffered one of the biggest data breaches in history sometime between mid-May and the end of July, exposing the information of an estimated 143 million people in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. Hackers were able to acquire names, social security numbers, birth dates, home address, and some drivers' license information.
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Equifax should be closed down. Rip off credit reporting agency with no accountability.
Their IT consultant also stated that Equifax had neglected to apply security patches to their servers that were critical. Everyone who's SS# was stolen will eventually be affected negatively by this. Equifax should be forced to pay each and everyone of them the 1 million dollars now that their free credit monitoring program promises to reimburse you if you're compromised.
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