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Four Chinese military personnel charged for Equifax hack

Posted by chkiss
Tags: privacy, hacking, equifax, china, usa, department of justice, military, legal, data, data breaches, source.us department of justice
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-military-personnel-charged-computer-fraud-economic-espionage-and-wire-fraud-hacking

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Title
Chinese Military Personnel Charged with Computer Fraud, Economic Espionage and Wire Fraud for Hacking into Credit Reporting Agency Equifax
Published
Feb 10 2020
Word count
793 words

3 comments

  1. joplin
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    To me this just shows that we need much tighter regulations on what these companies can collect and store and how long they can keep it.

    To me this just shows that we need much tighter regulations on what these companies can collect and store and how long they can keep it.

    12 votes
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    Gaywallet
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    Huh, I've got to say, I did not expect that it was a foreign government behind a credit agency hack. Fascinating.

    Huh, I've got to say, I did not expect that it was a foreign government behind a credit agency hack. Fascinating.

    5 votes
    1. ruspaceni
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      I was reading a sysadmin thread and had the same realization. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/f1bkvt/corpcom_is_being_sold_thousands_of_systems_around/fh6c7k1/ he had the domain it.com...

      I was reading a sysadmin thread and had the same realization. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/f1bkvt/corpcom_is_being_sold_thousands_of_systems_around/fh6c7k1/ he had the domain it.com and it was receiving information it really shouldn't be seeing at all.

      Scary to think that all it would take is a hasty sale by someone not thinking twice, it expiring, or whatever else then there's a huge vector for leaked (well, broadcasted) info.

      4 votes