National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

October 8, 2017

Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

This post was originally published on this siteIn May, KrebsOnSecurity broke a story about lax security at a payroll division of big-three credit bureau Equifax that let identity thieves access personal and financial data on an unknown number of Americans. Incredibly, this same division makes it simple to access detailed salary and employment history on a large portion of Americans using little more than someone’s Social Security number and date of birth — both data elements that were stolen in the recent breach at Equifax. At issue is a service provided by Equifax’s TALX division called The Work Number. The […]