Equifax says cyberattack may have affeted 143 million customers

what is equifax?

third best reporting agency than credit

hired cyber security firm

Created a webside: www.equifax.com to help costumers

the agency offers a service that provides companies with questions and answers necessary for the recovery of their account

using the data stolen from equifax

identity thieves can impersonate people with lenders, creditors and service providers

is offering consumers the ability to freeze their Equifax

but

thieves could have information stolen from Equifax and used it to open accounts with creditors that use Experian or TransUnion

The breach also poses a potential national

Chinese nation-state hackers have breached insurers

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anthem

federal agencies

siphoning detailed personal and medical information.

Equifax’s credit protection service is available to everyone for one years

Hackers

are the 3rd cyber threat of 2015

had access to data, sensitive information of:
- Social security number and driver's licenses, 143 affected clients
- names, dates of birth and addresses, 182,000 affected
- robbed credit card numbers, 209,000 affected

the seat of atlanta is the target of hackers

cyber security professionals criticize equifax for not improving security after so many thefts, they say that their websites are vulnerable

other cyberattacks

two gaps announced by yahoo in 2016. the attack is much more serious, especially personal information, medical records, bank accounts and employee accounts

820 million people were affected, 91 thousand companies in the world