The NSA with it's $53B budget for spying on everyone has placed back doors on all the networking hardware & software. Snowden warned us the app for gaining access into data networks/phones/email servers/even auto's would fall into the wrong hands and it has already has. The NSA has insured that all networks can now be easily hacked. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/europe/uk-national-health-service-cyberattack.html?mcubz=0
Put options must be flying in value after this unexpected, black swan event, Kind of reminds me of the plot of the movie The Taking of Pelham 123 [2009] movie. John Travolta's character made a killing in the market with put options after causing a hijacking scare on the subway. Same plot of the movie Hacker [2016]...a fake assassination of the FED Chairman led to someone making a killing in put options.
Pffff.... Short Lifelock dot com, or any other service that charges for credit monitoring.... cause after today... its finally gonna be free to consumers.... as it always should have. This is a big. Lets see how well they brush it under the rug. Huge consumer "fuck you" industry. Ever tried to correct erroneous info on your credit report....? Not only do they not hire geeks to prevent hacking.... they don't hire real people to address issues that fuck consumers that are victimized through no fault of their own..... I'm laughin my ass off.... 2.4 Billion lost. Credit check that bitches. Fire that mother fucker.
True story... I worked out a deal to buy a strip center with no real-estate agents involved outside of Atlanta in 04... it was a done deal... until the financing arm found a $375 cell phone bill pending on my CR that some fucking loser or some ex used my info to get. It didn't matter that I was paying 60% in cash.... they didn't care. It took me 5 months to get it corrected. In the meantime they sold the propery to someone else who did exactly what I was going to do... flip it. (it was a steal).... $100K lost... so yeah.... I got a fuckin ax to grind with these assholes. It was in fact Equifax.
The password to the main Equifax database holding all of this info was probably "123456", or "password" Morons. And these are the people who are supposed to protect our consumer identity. Hello...Cybersecurity? Dumb-asses?
You sure VanZandt cause your Equifax report says balance of 0, across the board, and a link to a GoFundMe page?jk haha I worked for a software company that sold 6 figure ERP software for manufacturers and while we had clients configured to our servers if not on their own servers we were warned about websites or opening any unknown email. If in doubt, you send it to IT. All of those hundred million users leaked at Target or Yahoo is cause some individual gets, an official looking email, from a coworker, clicks link and that is it. Add in, the leak, of CIA's top hacking software, a few months ago, by Assange(maybe) and cyber warfare is where, the real threat is. No need, to spend billions on subs and aircraft, when China backs hackers. I suppose it's time for that dooms day parlay...Hurricanes, Fires, Nukes, and Skynet!lol
It gets better, managers sold stock after they found the hack but before they revealed it to the public. According to the article they were not scheduled sales. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...utives-sold-stock-before-revealing-cyber-hack
In any case, this is bad. Very bad. When one of the three credit-reporting agencies gets hacked, it is bad. This is not some little Yahoo woowoo moment...This is big-time bad.
I agree it's very bad being, a credit bureau, but quite common and all the FireEye or Palo Alto in the world isn't going to stop it from happening again. Here is the website: https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/ You get 1yr. free of credit monitoring and identity theft protection.
Sort of. You can also use a VPN and a cookie tracer that changes who you are. You can pretend to be American if you so desired. Most of the How to's aren't even available without using TOR, so these guys have some splainin to do. It's the famous saying, "it takes one to know one." By the way..... A kid hacked into the pentagon, what sort of cyber security do you think will prevent a private company from being hacked?