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Revealed: The Canadian mortgage market’s latest risk trends

“Instead of the great renewal, I think forward-looking, we need to be looking at the constant renewal,” she…
#Canada #Equifax #Risks
https://www.europesays.com/canada/231393/

#CreditReporting agencies are a plague on society & I would support legislation to permanently eliminate them in their entirety. In particular #Experian but, also #Equifax and #TransUnion. This sentiment has zero to do with any credit rating & everything to do with their incompetence & lack of accountability, and finally their use of #AI to obstruct the application of simple logic.

#Finance #Economics #Credit #Politics #USPol #Midterms #Election #Vote #Consumers #USA #America

#CreditReporting agencies are a plague on society & I would support legislation to permanently eliminate them in their entirety. In particular #Experian but, also #Equifax and #TransUnion. This sentiment has zero to do with any credit rating & everything to do with their incompetence & lack of accountability, and finally their use of #AI to obstruct the application of simple logic.

#Finance #Economics #Credit #Politics #USPol #Midterms #Election #Vote #Consumers #USA #America

#CreditReporting agencies are a plague on society & I would support legislation to permanently eliminate them in their entirety. In particular #Experian but, also #Equifax and #TransUnion. This sentiment has zero to do with any credit rating & everything to do with their incompetence & lack of accountability, and finally their use of #AI to obstruct the application of simple logic.

#Finance #Economics #Credit #Politics #USPol #Midterms #Election #Vote #Consumers #USA #America

#CreditReporting agencies are a plague on society & I would support legislation to permanently eliminate them in their entirety. In particular #Experian but, also #Equifax and #TransUnion. This sentiment has zero to do with any credit rating & everything to do with their incompetence & lack of accountability, and finally their use of #AI to obstruct the application of simple logic.

#Finance #Economics #Credit #Politics #USPol #Midterms #Election #Vote #Consumers #USA #America

Bathla Group suspensions point to ‘larger storm’ coming in construction industry

Under voluntary administration and having stood down two-thirds its staff, embattled property developer Bathla Group has left dozens…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #bankrupt #BathlaGroup #Construction #customer #equifax #layoffs #shutdown #suspension #Teneo #voluntaryadministration
https://www.europesays.com/australia/90397/

@theblufnews it's ridiculous. I have no problem with verification for finance but Biometrics being stored is so dangerous.

This nextgen facial scanning is either owned or affiliated with Equifax which is the security equivalent of storing your water in a colander

#privacy #finance #biometrics #auspol #Australia #tech #Equifax

@theblufnews it's ridiculous. I have no problem with verification for finance but Biometrics being stored is so dangerous.

This nextgen facial scanning is either owned or affiliated with Equifax which is the security equivalent of storing your water in a colander

#privacy #finance #biometrics #auspol #Australia #tech #Equifax

@theblufnews it's ridiculous. I have no problem with verification for finance but Biometrics being stored is so dangerous.

This nextgen facial scanning is either owned or affiliated with Equifax which is the security equivalent of storing your water in a colander

#privacy #finance #biometrics #auspol #Australia #tech #Equifax

@theblufnews it's ridiculous. I have no problem with verification for finance but Biometrics being stored is so dangerous.

This nextgen facial scanning is either owned or affiliated with Equifax which is the security equivalent of storing your water in a colander

#privacy #finance #biometrics #auspol #Australia #tech #Equifax

As a consequence of this (huge) #databreach the victims will be asked (as it was the case with previous breaches) to be particularly careful and sign up for identity theft protection services.

That means that the responsibility for preventing negative consequences of data breaches effectively lies with the victim. #equifax initially even tried to sell credit monitoring to the victims of their 2017 breach; they later were forced to provide 4 years of free monitoring as part of the settlement. The #FTC even recommended to go for free monitoring instead of the $125 payout - which I believe very few people actually received anyway.

I think industry needs to be held responsible for these breaches, e.g., by contributing towards a free insurance for identity-theft victims.

#krebsonsecurity #identitytheft

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

As a consequence of this (huge) #databreach the victims will be asked (as it was the case with previous breaches) to be particularly careful and sign up for identity theft protection services.

That means that the responsibility for preventing negative consequences of data breaches effectively lies with the victim. #equifax initially even tried to sell credit monitoring to the victims of their 2017 breach; they later were forced to provide 4 years of free monitoring as part of the settlement. The #FTC even recommended to go for free monitoring instead of the $125 payout - which I believe very few people actually received anyway.

I think industry needs to be held responsible for these breaches, e.g., by contributing towards a free insurance for identity-theft victims.

#krebsonsecurity #identitytheft

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

As a consequence of this (huge) #databreach the victims will be asked (as it was the case with previous breaches) to be particularly careful and sign up for identity theft protection services.

That means that the responsibility for preventing negative consequences of data breaches effectively lies with the victim. #equifax initially even tried to sell credit monitoring to the victims of their 2017 breach; they later were forced to provide 4 years of free monitoring as part of the settlement. The #FTC even recommended to go for free monitoring instead of the $125 payout - which I believe very few people actually received anyway.

I think industry needs to be held responsible for these breaches, e.g., by contributing towards a free insurance for identity-theft victims.

#krebsonsecurity #identitytheft

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

As a consequence of this (huge) #databreach the victims will be asked (as it was the case with previous breaches) to be particularly careful and sign up for identity theft protection services.

That means that the responsibility for preventing negative consequences of data breaches effectively lies with the victim. #equifax initially even tried to sell credit monitoring to the victims of their 2017 breach; they later were forced to provide 4 years of free monitoring as part of the settlement. The #FTC even recommended to go for free monitoring instead of the $125 payout - which I believe very few people actually received anyway.

I think industry needs to be held responsible for these breaches, e.g., by contributing towards a free insurance for identity-theft victims.

#krebsonsecurity #identitytheft

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

🎉 #Equifax has blessed us with The Work Number, a magical employment scorecard because who doesn't love another number defining your worth? Now, with an all-new login system, you can relive the joy of re-registering for a service you never wanted in the first place. 🙄🔑
https://employees.theworknumber.com #TheWorkNumber #employmentscorecard #reregistration #frustrations #loginupdates #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 #Equifax has blessed us with The Work Number, a magical employment scorecard because who doesn't love another number defining your worth? Now, with an all-new login system, you can relive the joy of re-registering for a service you never wanted in the first place. 🙄🔑
https://employees.theworknumber.com #TheWorkNumber #employmentscorecard #reregistration #frustrations #loginupdates #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 #Equifax has blessed us with The Work Number, a magical employment scorecard because who doesn't love another number defining your worth? Now, with an all-new login system, you can relive the joy of re-registering for a service you never wanted in the first place. 🙄🔑
https://employees.theworknumber.com #TheWorkNumber #employmentscorecard #reregistration #frustrations #loginupdates #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 #Equifax has blessed us with The Work Number, a magical employment scorecard because who doesn't love another number defining your worth? Now, with an all-new login system, you can relive the joy of re-registering for a service you never wanted in the first place. 🙄🔑
https://employees.theworknumber.com #TheWorkNumber #employmentscorecard #reregistration #frustrations #loginupdates #HackerNews #ngated

The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

https://employees.theworknumber.com

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49416200

#HackerNews #TheWorkNumber #Equifax #employmenthistory #creditscore #jobverification

The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

https://employees.theworknumber.com

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49416200

#HackerNews #TheWorkNumber #Equifax #employmenthistory #creditscore #jobverification

The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

https://employees.theworknumber.com

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49416200

#HackerNews #TheWorkNumber #Equifax #employmenthistory #creditscore #jobverification

The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

https://employees.theworknumber.com

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49416200

#HackerNews #TheWorkNumber #Equifax #employmenthistory #creditscore #jobverification

‘Mass exodus’: Buyers flee housing market

The number of Australians taking on new a mortgage has slumped. Picture: NewsWire A mass exodus from both…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #AU #Australia #Business #Equifax #GovernmentPolicies #interestrates #KevinJames #MrJames #newswire
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/847674/

Among the latest data-breach villains: the Washington Post

Members of the Washington Post’s extended diaspora, meaning both former employees as well as past freelancers, have begun getting an unwelcome reminder of that chapter in their professional lives: a letter from the Post, sent from an address not in the District but in West Sacramento, Calif., informing them of a “Data Security Incident.”

That inefficient phrase is defensive legalese for “data breach,” which the letter says, in comparably defensive passive voice, happened between July 10 and Aug. 22, 2025, when “certain data was accessed and acquired without authorization” from unspecified Oracle E-Business Suite applications.

In my case and others, to judge from reports from fellow recipients of this joyless notice, the “certain data” included names and Social Security numbers.

The letter may not spark any more joy at Oracle, since it describes the vulnerability exploited as a “previously unknown and widespread” flaw. Oracle’s own warning red-flags it as “remotely exploitable without authentication.” But the paper’s disclosure does not address another cause of the data breach: how the Post chose to retain this sort of sensitive data long after it should have stopped being regularly business-relevant.

Consider my example: The last time I had any ongoing transactions with the Post that should have involved my SSN was 15 years ago. I rolled over my 401(K) after leaving the paper, and Jeff Bezos buying the Post in 2013 resulted in the company transferring my pension and those of other ex-Posties to former publisher Don Graham’s firm Graham Holdings.

For the handful of freelance pieces I’ve sold to my old shop since then (such as the Jan. 28, 2019 opinion piece headlined “Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy”), I’ve used the Employer Identification Number I obtained shortly after I started freelancing.

Yet apparently my SSN was still sitting unencrypted in a network-accessible database last summer, contrary to basic security advice, along with the digits of thousands of other current and former Post employees and contractors. Some had banking details compromised too.

That’s “thousands” as in 9,720 people, per a filing the Post made with Maine’s Attorney General in November that a few security publications covered at the time. A month later, a former Post employee named Jun Hee Kim filed a class-action lawsuit against the Post on behalf of those nearly 10,000 individuals.

I have yet to get a notice inviting me to join that class, and the Post’s letter does not mention the litigation. Instead, it offers the usual paltry remedy of a year of identity-theft monitoring, in this case from a firm called IDX.

I know that’s the standard act of apology not only from covering data breaches but from having my data exposed in them, over and over. I know the drill well enough to have turned “Equifax” into the verb “Equifaxed” and to have frozen my credit more than once.

So at some level, I’m not surprised at the news of the Post’s data breach so much as I’m surprised that it took this long. Throughout my time working at 15th and L, I saw the Post treat SSNs as carelessly as anybody else did decades ago–even using them as employee IDs, as seen in some of my own admin paperwork from early in this century showing the full nine digits. But it’s still stupid and sloppy that this particular data breach happened not in 2005 or 2015 but in 2025, well past the point when management at the Post should have known better.

Among the latest data-breach villains: the Washington Post

Members of the Washington Post’s extended diaspora, meaning both former employees as well as past freelancers, have begun getting an unwelcome reminder of that chapter in their professional lives: a letter from the Post, sent from an address not in the District but in West Sacramento, Calif., informing them of a “Data Security Incident.”

That inefficient phrase is defensive legalese for “data breach,” which the letter says, in comparably defensive passive voice, happened between July 10 and Aug. 22, 2025, when “certain data was accessed and acquired without authorization” from unspecified Oracle E-Business Suite applications.

In my case and others, to judge from reports from fellow recipients of this joyless notice, the “certain data” included names and Social Security numbers.

The letter may not spark any more joy at Oracle, since it describes the vulnerability exploited as a “previously unknown and widespread” flaw. Oracle’s own warning red-flags it as “remotely exploitable without authentication.” But the paper’s disclosure does not address another cause of the data breach: how the Post chose to retain this sort of sensitive data long after it should have stopped being regularly business-relevant.

Consider my example: The last time I had any ongoing transactions with the Post that should have involved my SSN was 15 years ago. I rolled over my 401(K) after leaving the paper, and Jeff Bezos buying the Post in 2013 resulted in the company transferring my pension and those of other ex-Posties to former publisher Don Graham’s firm Graham Holdings.

For the handful of freelance pieces I’ve sold to my old shop since then (such as the Jan. 28, 2019 opinion piece headlined “Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy”), I’ve used the Employer Identification Number I obtained shortly after I started freelancing.

Yet apparently my SSN was still sitting unencrypted in a network-accessible database last summer, contrary to basic security advice, along with the digits of thousands of other current and former Post employees and contractors. Some had banking details compromised too.

That’s “thousands” as in 9,720 people, per a filing the Post made with Maine’s Attorney General in November that a few security publications covered at the time. A month later, a former Post employee named Jun Hee Kim filed a class-action lawsuit against the Post on behalf of those nearly 10,000 individuals.

I have yet to get a notice inviting me to join that class, and the Post’s letter does not mention the litigation. Instead, it offers the usual paltry remedy of a year of identity-theft monitoring, in this case from a firm called IDX.

I know that’s the standard act of apology not only from covering data breaches but from having my data exposed in them, over and over. I know the drill well enough to have turned “Equifax” into the verb “Equifaxed” and to have frozen my credit more than once.

So at some level, I’m not surprised at the news of the Post’s data breach so much as I’m surprised that it took this long. Throughout my time working at 15th and L, I saw the Post treat SSNs as carelessly as anybody else did decades ago–even using them as employee IDs, as seen in some of my own admin paperwork from early in this century showing the full nine digits. But it’s still stupid and sloppy that this particular data breach happened not in 2005 or 2015 but in 2025, well past the point when management at the Post should have known better.

Among the latest data-breach villains: the Washington Post

Members of the Washington Post’s extended diaspora, meaning both former employees as well as past freelancers, have begun getting an unwelcome reminder of that chapter in their professional lives: a letter from the Post, sent from an address not in the District but in West Sacramento, Calif., informing them of a “Data Security Incident.”

That inefficient phrase is defensive legalese for “data breach,” which the letter says, in comparably defensive passive voice, happened between July 10 and Aug. 22, 2025, when “certain data was accessed and acquired without authorization” from unspecified Oracle E-Business Suite applications.

In my case and others, to judge from reports from fellow recipients of this joyless notice, the “certain data” included names and Social Security numbers.

The letter may not spark any more joy at Oracle, since it describes the vulnerability exploited as a “previously unknown and widespread” flaw. Oracle’s own warning red-flags it as “remotely exploitable without authentication.” But the paper’s disclosure does not address another cause of the data breach: how the Post chose to retain this sort of sensitive data long after it should have stopped being regularly business-relevant.

Consider my example: The last time I had any ongoing transactions with the Post that should have involved my SSN was 15 years ago. I rolled over my 401(K) after leaving the paper, and Jeff Bezos buying the Post in 2013 resulted in the company transferring my pension and those of other ex-Posties to former publisher Don Graham’s firm Graham Holdings.

For the handful of freelance pieces I’ve sold to my old shop since then (such as the Jan. 28, 2019 opinion piece headlined “Big tech firms still don’t care about your privacy”), I’ve used the Employer Identification Number I obtained shortly after I started freelancing.

Yet apparently my SSN was still sitting unencrypted in a network-accessible database last summer, contrary to basic security advice, along with the digits of thousands of other current and former Post employees and contractors. Some had banking details compromised too.

That’s “thousands” as in 9,720 people, per a filing the Post made with Maine’s Attorney General in November that a few security publications covered at the time. A month later, a former Post employee named Jun Hee Kim filed a class-action lawsuit against the Post on behalf of those nearly 10,000 individuals.

I have yet to get a notice inviting me to join that class, and the Post’s letter does not mention the litigation. Instead, it offers the usual paltry remedy of a year of identity-theft monitoring, in this case from a firm called IDX.

I know that’s the standard act of apology not only from covering data breaches but from having my data exposed in them, over and over. I know the drill well enough to have turned “Equifax” into the verb “Equifaxed” and to have frozen my credit more than once.

So at some level, I’m not surprised at the news of the Post’s data breach so much as I’m surprised that it took this long. Throughout my time working at 15th and L, I saw the Post treat SSNs as carelessly as anybody else did decades ago–even using them as employee IDs, as seen in some of my own admin paperwork from early in this century showing the full nine digits. But it’s still stupid and sloppy that this particular data breach happened not in 2005 or 2015 but in 2025, well past the point when management at the Post should have known better.

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@ndrwy/116840202514387974

I had done Equifax a couple weeks ago, now did the credit freeze for Transunion

It's also a good exercise to have an account with those 2 services (even if you don't credit freeze) as it associates yourself with an account and you reduce the chance of a fraudster claiming your account.

#equifax #transunion #ontario

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@ndrwy/116840202514387974

I had done Equifax a couple weeks ago, now did the credit freeze for Transunion

It's also a good exercise to have an account with those 2 services (even if you don't credit freeze) as it associates yourself with an account and you reduce the chance of a fraudster claiming your account.

#equifax #transunion #ontario

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@ndrwy/116840202514387974

I had done Equifax a couple weeks ago, now did the credit freeze for Transunion

It's also a good exercise to have an account with those 2 services (even if you don't credit freeze) as it associates yourself with an account and you reduce the chance of a fraudster claiming your account.

#equifax #transunion #ontario

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@ndrwy/116840202514387974

I had done Equifax a couple weeks ago, now did the credit freeze for Transunion

It's also a good exercise to have an account with those 2 services (even if you don't credit freeze) as it associates yourself with an account and you reduce the chance of a fraudster claiming your account.

#equifax #transunion #ontario

Equifax® Canada introduces Credit Lock to empower Ontarians and help fight identity theft and fraud

Equifax Canada Effective July 1, 2026, residents of Ontario can place a digital lock on their credit report…
#Canada #creditreport #Equifax #EquifaxCanada #identitytheft
https://www.europesays.com/canada/83656/

Equifax partners with Poland’s leading credit bureau to expand client access to identity and fraud solutions

WARSAW, June 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Equifax UK and Biuro Informacji Kredytowej S.A. (BIK), Poland’s primary credit bureau, have…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #creditbureau #Equifax #fraudprevention #fraudservices #identityverification
https://www.europesays.com/poland/9832/

Americans now owe a staggering $18.19 trillion as credit card debt keeps climbing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/us-consumer-debt-2026/

Americans now owe a staggering $18.19 trillion as credit card debt keeps climbing

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/us-consumer-debt-2026/

Americans now owe a staggering $18.19 trillion as credit card debt keeps climbing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/us-consumer-debt-2026/

Americans now owe a staggering $18.19 trillion as credit card debt keeps climbing

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/us-consumer-debt-2026/

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📢 Equifax and GBG Expand Global Partnership - Sahm

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#Equifax #Expand #Global #Partnership #GlobalFeed #News #ARABIC

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@zackwhittaker no “forethought to the future consequences of amassing vast banks of personal information” is required here, merely hindsight. We all know how this is going to play out. Think #Equifax.

#ageverification

@zackwhittaker no “forethought to the future consequences of amassing vast banks of personal information” is required here, merely hindsight. We all know how this is going to play out. Think #Equifax.

#ageverification

@zackwhittaker no “forethought to the future consequences of amassing vast banks of personal information” is required here, merely hindsight. We all know how this is going to play out. Think #Equifax.

#ageverification

@zackwhittaker no “forethought to the future consequences of amassing vast banks of personal information” is required here, merely hindsight. We all know how this is going to play out. Think #Equifax.

#ageverification

This is such a cunning, shameless, beautiful scam.

Got an email from Equifax (who exposed zillions of records to hackers not long ago if memory serves), the gist of which was:

'Nice credit rating you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it...'

I took the bait and logged in.

The images tell the story.

It's a sublime shakedown.

@pluralistic

#economics #equifax #security #tech

This is such a cunning, shameless, beautiful scam.

Got an email from Equifax (who exposed zillions of records to hackers not long ago if memory serves), the gist of which was:

'Nice credit rating you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it...'

I took the bait and logged in.

The images tell the story.

It's a sublime shakedown.

@pluralistic

#economics #equifax #security #tech

This is such a cunning, shameless, beautiful scam.

Got an email from Equifax (who exposed zillions of records to hackers not long ago if memory serves), the gist of which was:

'Nice credit rating you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it...'

I took the bait and logged in.

The images tell the story.

It's a sublime shakedown.

@pluralistic

#economics #equifax #security #tech

This is such a cunning, shameless, beautiful scam.

Got an email from Equifax (who exposed zillions of records to hackers not long ago if memory serves), the gist of which was:

'Nice credit rating you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it...'

I took the bait and logged in.

The images tell the story.

It's a sublime shakedown.

@pluralistic

#economics #equifax #security #tech

A look at how tri-merge credit reduces credit uncertainty. https://hackernoon.com/how-tri-merge-reduces-credit-uncertainty #equifax

A look at how tri-merge credit reduces credit uncertainty. https://hackernoon.com/how-tri-merge-reduces-credit-uncertainty #equifax

A look at how tri-merge credit reduces credit uncertainty. https://hackernoon.com/how-tri-merge-reduces-credit-uncertainty #equifax

A look at how tri-merge credit reduces credit uncertainty. https://hackernoon.com/how-tri-merge-reduces-credit-uncertainty #equifax

Those Austrians who are concerned about their personal data they provide for the purpose of age verification leaking are overreacting. There is no reason to worry.

That's because a subsidiary of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (#ORF) already leaked every single Austrian's birthdate a few years ago, so your data is already out there. The Austrian data protection agency stated that that company "did everything right“, and there were no repercussions.

I am being sarcastic, of course. When you upload a copy of your personal id, keep in mind that the company processing it will face little to no consequences in case they leak that data. So there isn't much of an incentive to waste money on protecting it. Also, don't expect any compensation from that company (how much did you get from #equifax?) in case you incur any damages because of that leak - the onus will be on you to prove that the damages are a direct consequence of that specific leak.

Oh, and in case you think that that's not going to happen, it already did: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

#ageverification #privacy

Those Austrians who are concerned about their personal data they provide for the purpose of age verification leaking are overreacting. There is no reason to worry.

That's because a subsidiary of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (#ORF) already leaked every single Austrian's birthdate a few years ago, so your data is already out there. The Austrian data protection agency stated that that company "did everything right“, and there were no repercussions.

I am being sarcastic, of course. When you upload a copy of your personal id, keep in mind that the company processing it will face little to no consequences in case they leak that data. So there isn't much of an incentive to waste money on protecting it. Also, don't expect any compensation from that company (how much did you get from #equifax?) in case you incur any damages because of that leak - the onus will be on you to prove that the damages are a direct consequence of that specific leak.

Oh, and in case you think that that's not going to happen, it already did: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

#ageverification #privacy

Those Austrians who are concerned about their personal data they provide for the purpose of age verification leaking are overreacting. There is no reason to worry.

That's because a subsidiary of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (#ORF) already leaked every single Austrian's birthdate a few years ago, so your data is already out there. The Austrian data protection agency stated that that company "did everything right“, and there were no repercussions.

I am being sarcastic, of course. When you upload a copy of your personal id, keep in mind that the company processing it will face little to no consequences in case they leak that data. So there isn't much of an incentive to waste much money on protecting it. Also, don't expect any compensation from that company (how much did you get from #equifax?) in case you incur any damages because of that leak - the onus will be on you to prove that the damages are a direct consequence of that specific leak.

Oh, and in case you think that that's not going to happen, it already did: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

#ageverification #privacy

Those Austrians who are concerned about their personal data they provide for the purpose of age verification leaking are overreacting. There is no reason to worry.

That's because a subsidiary of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (#ORF) already leaked every single Austrian's birthdate a few years ago, so your data is already out there. The Austrian data protection agency stated that that company "did everything right“, and there were no repercussions.

I am being sarcastic, of course. When you upload a copy of your personal id, keep in mind that the company processing it will face little to no consequences in case they leak that data. So there isn't much of an incentive to waste money on protecting it. Also, don't expect any compensation from that company (how much did you get from #equifax?) in case you incur any damages because of that leak - the onus will be on you to prove that the damages are a direct consequence of that specific leak.

Oh, and in case you think that that's not going to happen, it already did: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

#ageverification #privacy

Equifax got hacked. Nearly 150 million people's data stolen. And the executives' first move was to quietly sell their shares. 🤦

This is The Facepalm Files.

Check out my podcast "Smashing Security" for more stories like this.

#facepalm #cybersecurity #equifax #databreach #infosec #hacking

Equifax got hacked. Nearly 150 million people's data stolen. And the executives' first move was to quietly sell their shares. 🤦

This is The Facepalm Files.

Check out my podcast "Smashing Security" for more stories like this.

#facepalm #cybersecurity #equifax #databreach #infosec #hacking

Equifax got hacked. Nearly 150 million people's data stolen. And the executives' first move was to quietly sell their shares. 🤦

This is The Facepalm Files.

Check out my podcast "Smashing Security" for more stories like this.

#facepalm #cybersecurity #equifax #databreach #infosec #hacking

Equifax got hacked. Nearly 150 million people's data stolen. And the executives' first move was to quietly sell their shares. 🤦

This is The Facepalm Files.

Check out my podcast "Smashing Security" for more stories like this.

#facepalm #cybersecurity #equifax #databreach #infosec #hacking

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Find out what kinds of data banks and other financial institutions collect about you and their intended use by diving into the series What Everybody Knows About You. ⬇️

https://lpi.org/ecr6

#LPI #financialdata #bankingdata #creditscore #SIN #taxpayer #creditreport #Equifax

Find out what kinds of data banks and other financial institutions collect about you and their intended use by diving into the series What Everybody Knows About You. ⬇️

https://lpi.org/ecr6

#LPI #financialdata #bankingdata #creditscore #SIN #taxpayer #creditreport #Equifax