Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Equifax (new/rare) 50 state class action suit

Based on the CSO article:
Allegations of harm for the named plaintiffs range from having had to spend numerous hours monitoring personal accounts to those having experienced identity theft, multiple fraudulent charges on personal credit and debit cards, and/or the opening of unauthorized accounts and mortgages in their name

Report costs mount:
  • already spent $88 million in the third quarter as a result of the breach
  • profits falling $35 million from this quarter last year
  • Internal Revenue Service has temporarily suspended a contract worth more than $7 million
  • executives will also not receive incentive pay bonuses in 2017
  • CEO, CIO, CSO retired

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Job Opening at Uber, not as a driver

The list of breaches continues along with common themes: linking to third-party, ex-employees, cloud data storage and developer's security practices...exposing 57Million records.
Slightly different is that it's a coverup involving payout of $100,000 to delete incident and no notification.


Who will be next...