{"id":74573,"date":"2017-09-08T07:51:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74573"},"modified":"2017-09-08T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:51:39","slug":"equifax-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74573","title":{"rendered":"Equifax data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29th, the folks at Equifax detected breach of the Personally identifiable information (PII) of 143 million Americans and they got around to warning us yesterday. From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/07\/business\/equifax-cyberattack.html\">News York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is about as bad as it gets,\u201d said Pamela Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, a nonprofit research group. \u201cIf you have a credit report, chances are you may be in this breach. The chances are much better than 50 percent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Equifax has set up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equifaxsecurity2017.com\/\">a website <\/a>that can tell you if your records were affected. Yes, my records were affected;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74574\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Equifax-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Equifax-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Equifax.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But I have Lifelock, I have for years since the VA lost my data when an employee lost a computer with my PII on it.<\/p>\n<p>On the brighter side, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-07\/three-equifax-executives-sold-stock-before-revealing-cyber-hack\">three of Equifax managers<\/a> were able to dump some of their Equifax stock ahead of the announcement of the breach.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The trio had not yet been informed of the incident, the company said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure, I believe that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 29th, the folks at Equifax detected breach of the Personally identifiable information (PII) of &hellip; <a title=\"Equifax data breach\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74573\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Equifax data breach<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}