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Daxter

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27. Krebs on security discussed this in a recent post
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 11:49 PM
Sep 2017

He gave this advice:

I have long urged consumers to assume that all of the personal information jeopardized in this breach is already compromised and for sale many times over in the cybercrime underground (because it demonstrably is for a significant portion of Americans). One step in acting on that assumption is placing a credit freeze on one’s file with the three major credit bureaus and with Innovis — a fourth bureau which runs credit checks for many businesses but is not as widely known as the big three.


Link to article: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/breach-at-equifax-may-impact-143m-americans/

Brian Krebs does some of the best investigative journalism when it comes to revealing malware authors, security breaches, and data leaks.

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In twitlers SEC, they will get a slap on the and continue their merry way being of being thieves kimbutgar Sep 2017 #1
Prediction: Not even a slap, a tap or even ThoughtCriminal Sep 2017 #19
I hear you kimbutgar Sep 2017 #26
Get the Martha Stewart wing of the federal pen ready for some new guests NightWatcher Sep 2017 #2
B@stards benld74 Sep 2017 #3
Too powerful to be punished yet again! Chasstev365 Sep 2017 #4
Incredibly brazen! marybourg Sep 2017 #5
Corporate corruption at its' finest. democratisphere Sep 2017 #6
And these are the people.... SergeStorms Sep 2017 #21
Their cyber security department should be fired. democratisphere Sep 2017 #22
If they haven't been already. SergeStorms Sep 2017 #23
Wells Fargo and Equifax should not be allowed to conduct business. democratisphere Sep 2017 #24
I'm certainly.... SergeStorms Sep 2017 #25
Rules are for the little people! ellie Sep 2017 #7
Well now, that explains why it took so long for Equifax to tell the public about the hack... icymist Sep 2017 #8
So the credit serach software Wellstone ruled Sep 2017 #9
Inside job? They should have some of the strongest cyber protection available. n/t woodsprite Sep 2017 #10
Very fortuitous you might say. keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #11
Jesus... back to Life Lock I guess nini Sep 2017 #12
I wouldn't trust Life Lock with the combination to my luggage. Initech Sep 2017 #13
do you know of any other companies that do what life lock does nini Sep 2017 #14
They're all pretty horrible. Initech Sep 2017 #16
No kidding nini Sep 2017 #17
You're probably better off stuffing your money under your mattress at this point! Initech Sep 2017 #18
Will get worse zentrum Sep 2017 #15
This level of acceptable graft Duppers Sep 2017 #20
Krebs on security discussed this in a recent post Daxter Sep 2017 #27
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