
It wasn’t a good week for credit reporting agency Equifax, which admitted to a major data breach affecting more than 143 million people.
Consumers’ data was exposed over three months via a vulnerability in a web application, the company said in a press release announcing the breach.
The breach was covered by every major news outlet, but Data Breach Today‘s Jeremy Kirk raises some interesting questions about Equifax’s notification strategy in this piece.
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