The IRS Just Hired Equifax To Handle Our Personal Information. No, Seriously. The IRS will pay Equifax $7.25 million to verify taxpayer identities and validation for the government agency under a no-bid contract issued on September 29, three days before...
Equifax Bought An Identity Protection Service Already facing so many questions about a breach that sent much of the U.S. adult population’s personal information into the hands of hackers worldwide, Equifax now gets to answer a whole new set of questions about why...
6 Fresh Horrors From the Equifax CEO’s Congressional Hearing THE INITIAL DRAMA over Equifax’s September data breach has mostly subsided, but the actual damage will play out for years. And indeed, there turns out to be plenty of spectacle and public controversy...
Equifax manages 1,200 times more data than the Library of Congress After working largely out of the spotlight for decades, America’s thousands of credit reporting companies found themselves in trouble in the late 1960s as lawmakers grew concerned about the massive...
Avast Anti-Virus Infection May Lead to Infection of Millions—or Even Billions—of Computers, Including Yours “Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices, and it’s money wasted because none of these measures address the...
