Equifax was hacked by Chinese military officers, federal prosecutors say theverge.com/2020/2/10/2113…
Oh hey, look, it turns out that allowing firms to accumulate kompromat on a national scale and then assuming they will manage that unquantifiable risk with due care is a bad debt!
Oh hey, look, it turns out that allowing firms to accumulate kompromat on a national scale and then assuming they will manage that unquantifiable risk with due care is a bad debt!
Whodathunk.
"American businesses can not be complacent about protecting their data and intellectual property from our adversaries. American citizens cannot be complacent about protecting their sensitive data.” -FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich
"American businesses can not be complacent about protecting their data and intellectual property from our adversaries. American citizens cannot be complacent about protecting their sensitive data.” -FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich
But Equifax collects and maintains all that data nonconsensually. Equifax didn't gather it from "complacent" American citizens -- it gathered it from enraged American citizens who are desperate for their lawmakers to create meaningful penalties for breaches
And meaningful consent as a precondition for gathering data.
Equifax was literally founded to spy on brown people and sexual minorities and political dissidents so that the finance sector could discriminate against them.
Equifax was literally founded to spy on brown people and sexual minorities and political dissidents so that the finance sector could discriminate against them.
They had to change their name from "Retail Credit" to Equifax after Congressional hearings that revealed their incredible, depraved indifference to justice, equity and privacy.
That was 40+ years ago!
jacobinmag.com/2017/09/equifa…
That was 40+ years ago!
jacobinmag.com/2017/09/equifa…
Did they get better since? Nope. The "entirely preventable breach" was caused by "aggressive growth strategies"
thehill.com/policy/technol…
(that is, anticompetitive growth through mergers and acquisitions in the service of creating a vertical monopoly)
thehill.com/policy/technol…
(that is, anticompetitive growth through mergers and acquisitions in the service of creating a vertical monopoly)
Someone needs to tell the FBI that we've traced the Equifax complacency and it's coming from inside the (White) House (and the legislature).
A year after the breach, "nothing had changed."
axios.com/after-equifaxs…
A year after the breach, "nothing had changed."
axios.com/after-equifaxs…
That was when the "principled" wing of the GOP voted to neuter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:
theintercept.com/2017/10/24/aft…
(thanks, Corker, Flake, McCain, Murkowski and Collins!)
theintercept.com/2017/10/24/aft…
(thanks, Corker, Flake, McCain, Murkowski and Collins!)
You want complacency? How about when IRS Commissioner
John Koskinen told Americans that the Equifax breach didn't matter because most of the people compromised by it already had their data stolen in earlier breaches?
thehill.com/policy/cyberse…
John Koskinen told Americans that the Equifax breach didn't matter because most of the people compromised by it already had their data stolen in earlier breaches?
thehill.com/policy/cyberse…
Blaming "complacent American citizens" for the Equifax breach is like blaming climate change of Americans' failure to sort their waste from their recycling.
Equifax didn't get to be a criminal enterprise that posed an existential threat to the nation because of individual complacency. It got that way by serving the interests of the finance sector and the lawmakers who rely on it for their campaign contributions.
The idea that you had your data stolen by the Chinese military because you were complacent while Equifax was compiling its nonconsensual dossier on you and everything in your life is revolting. It's an embarrassment to the Bureau.
You got doxed by a multibillion-dollar blue chip company because lawmakers and law enforcement didn't give a shit. They knew, they could have done something. They didn't. Period.
