Equifax hack - 143 million people affected
 

So, Equifax got hacked between May and July and it looks like records on about 143 million people are affected. That's social security numbers, birth dates and sometimes license numbers. The company says they discovered the hack on July 29.

What is even better news is that 3 days after Equifax found out they were hacked, 3 of their senior executives dumped stock valued at about $1.8 million.

But nothing underhanded about that, I mean, Equifax assures us that the 3 executives didn't know about the hacks even though none of the trades made by them were listed in their trading plans.

Rigggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhtttttt tttttttttttt :mad:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ing-cyber-hack

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Yeah pretty crazy. Too big to fail.

Why don't they offer to change everyone's social security number that was hacked? That would actually help the victims.

big breach you would think these companies could handle themselves

Damn, that info is an identity thief's wet dream. It's going to have all the info necessary to duplicate one's identity and apply for new credit cards.

You'd think so but clearly most of us, at some point or other, have had all "private" data breached. Yet no sweeping government changes to protect our data, issue new SS#'s or anything. Always a big "oops" with no changes or consequences.

Our elections can easily be hacked if Equifax can be :2 cents:

Prepare to have many attempts of identity theft.
Fortunately, no credit card numbers were compromised.
I wonder who did the deed? Criminals, organized crime or a quasi foreign governmental actor?

To find out if your critical personal information was hacked, simply go to the Equifax web site and enter all of your critical personal information in the form provided.

No joke, no sarcasm. This is the only way to find out. :1orglaugh

I suppose there's other ways. If you find your bank account is wiped, its possible you may have been hacked. Or if you begin receiving credit card bills for millions of dollars of purchases you can't quite recall making, its possible you may have been hacked.

Equifax is online, voting isn't, simpleton.

Seem that is a scam by Equifax https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...reach-website/

Seems by agreeing to their TOS you are giving up legal rights to sue as part of class actions and agreeing to binding arbitration.
These people are real sleaze-bags.
Wait for the US DOJ and the lawsuits.
Be very skeptical of phishing scam type emails.
That is what the hackers got; emails and physical addresses with social security numbers.

You are wrong. All of the voting machines are online. All of them. You might go to a polling location to vote, or you might vote by mail, but eventually all the votes go to a computer that is online.

At DefCon earlier this year they proved how quickly everything can be hacked - took them all of ninety minutes.

All of them huh, I don't suppose you have a reliance to back you up.

If Voting Machines Were Hacked, It Might Not Be Obvious : NPR

learn to use Google search (<rolls eyes>)

Yes and no might be the answer.
Electronic voting machines have software, so it is possible, however unlikely, that the voting machine software might have been compromised and not the actual vote tally -- it might have been corrupted before the first vote was made thus altering the count.

There is no proof of this having occurred in the past general election.

Bitcoin? Anyone?

Eventually all of the data is sent to other computers online....

There was a thing on Bill Maher tonight about this very type of practice by large corporations.

Yeah when I went to vote in person they had to reboot all the machines because 2 were erroring out . But they couldn't reboot just one, it had to be all at the same time to connect to the online hub as one. The guy doing it was 60 something years old and had to call in for support.

So here in California, the machines don't work unless they're connected online :2 cents:

They have changed their terms in response to all the complaints and have now said "except in regards to the cyber attack" or some such.

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