If you thought that ripples and dangers from the Equifax breach in September 2017 have passed, think again. Yesterday, Darcy noticed she was getting junk (snail) mail for people who no longer lived at her address. She told me she thought more data had been exposed in the Equifax breach that was announced last September. Apparently, Equifax, trying to mitigate the damage, didn’t report all the names of those who had sensitive data stolen from them. Well, it was only 2.4 million people. Only?\u00a0 As pointed out in the article below from Clark Howard, 2.4 million people is greater than the population of Rhode Island & New Hampshire combined.<\/p>\n
Below is a portion of the article from Clark Howard:<\/a><\/p>\n The new revelations cast doubt on whether the public will ever known the true extent of the\u00a0massive breach, which was disclosed<\/a>\u00a0by the Atlanta-based company on September 7, 2017.\u00a0California Senator Elizabeth Warren, who recently released a report on Equifax called \u201cBad Credit<\/a>,\u201d echoed those sentiments in a recent interview, saying that the company was actually still profiting off the hack.<\/p>\n \u201cThe problem is there\u2019s no real penalty for them,\u201d\u00a0Warren told Marketplace.org<\/a>. \u201cYou know, it\u2019s not like consumers can say, \u2018Well, that\u2019s it. I\u2019m never going to do business with Equifax again.\u2019 That\u2019s not how it works with credit-reporting agencies. In fact, Equifax may actually make money off this breach because it sells all these credit-protection devices, and even consumers who say, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m never doing business with Equifax again,\u2019 well, good for you, but you go buy credit protection from someone else, they very well may be using Equifax to do the back office part. So Equifax is still making money off their own breach.\u201d<\/p>\n Just last month,\u00a0we reported that the hack was much worse<\/a>\u00a0than we thought based on new information that in addition to Social Security numbers, the criminals made off with the names of the issuing states for some driver\u2019s licenses, credit card expiration dates as well as tax identification numbers, email addresses and phone numbers.<\/p>\n The latest disclosure means that as many as 148 million consumers have been exposed to identity fraud in the cybersecurity incident. And if you don\u2019t think an additional 2.4 million people make a difference, that\u2019s the size of the populations of New Hampshire and Rhode Island combined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For more about this latest revelation,\u00a0please read the entire Clark Howard article here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2.4 Million More Americans Exposed in Data Breach Says Equifax If you thought that ripples and dangers from the Equifax breach in September 2017 have passed, think again. Yesterday, Darcy noticed she was getting junk (snail) mail for people who no longer lived at her address. She told me she thought more data had been exposed in the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821,1426,1680,1656,1674],"tags":[2211,792,2212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14574,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions\/14574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Equifax says 2.4 million more Americans exposed in data breach<\/strong><\/h1>\n