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thewayneThis goes back to the Vietnamese criminal, who plead guilty when suckered on to U.S. territory and arrested, who had full access to credit and personal information of somewhere on the order of 200 million people and was selling them, making an estimated $1.9 million on it. The company was subsequently bought out by Experian, but he continued to have access for two months after that happened.
At least two states are investigating Experian. This makes me very happy.
The fault really lies in the original company that was bought out by Experian, and I'm sure it takes some time to conduct a full audit when you buy a company. It's possible that they shut the guy down as soon as they detected him, I'd like to think that. But considering how these data aggregators work with zero oversight and how they've managed to conflate my dad's traffic accidents with my records because we have one name in common, I'm not holding my breath that they're lily-white.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/04/u-s-states-investigating-breach-at-experian/
At least two states are investigating Experian. This makes me very happy.
The fault really lies in the original company that was bought out by Experian, and I'm sure it takes some time to conduct a full audit when you buy a company. It's possible that they shut the guy down as soon as they detected him, I'd like to think that. But considering how these data aggregators work with zero oversight and how they've managed to conflate my dad's traffic accidents with my records because we have one name in common, I'm not holding my breath that they're lily-white.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/04/u-s-states-investigating-breach-at-experian/
