I will be blunt, and I am very incensed by this.
My comments ... https://twitter.com/hpcjoe/status/906549917509980160
This is an extinction level event for Equifax. They need to be disassembled, their stored data destroyed correctly and securely, their negligent officers charged.
This isn't an accident. You don't surface 0.134 BILLION bits of PII without some sort of criminal level incompetence.
Any organization that uses Equifax data in any decision making process needs to be held accountable, as there may have been earlier intrusions also undiscovered, that have altered. Which, if they then choose to use them in any decision process whatsoever, brings them liability for misuse of possibly tampered with data.
I am quite serious when I say that Equifax should cease to exist as a result of this. All others should be audited for security, and audited hard.
Again, not being hyperbolic. But quite direct, with appropriate levels of anger at Equifax.
My comments ... https://twitter.com/hpcjoe/status/906549917509980160
This is an extinction level event for Equifax. They need to be disassembled, their stored data destroyed correctly and securely, their negligent officers charged.
This isn't an accident. You don't surface 0.134 BILLION bits of PII without some sort of criminal level incompetence.
Any organization that uses Equifax data in any decision making process needs to be held accountable, as there may have been earlier intrusions also undiscovered, that have altered. Which, if they then choose to use them in any decision process whatsoever, brings them liability for misuse of possibly tampered with data.
I am quite serious when I say that Equifax should cease to exist as a result of this. All others should be audited for security, and audited hard.
Again, not being hyperbolic. But quite direct, with appropriate levels of anger at Equifax.