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A few years back, Equifax Inc. experienced a system breach that compromised personally identifying data belonging to millions of customers. For a couple of years, the Equifax organization had been the leading organization when it comes to credit reporting. Notably, its ability to assess the financial health of multiple clients established a strong background that influenced its rapid growth. Despite knowing the increasing cyberattacks attributed to the advancement of the technology, Equifax faced a lax security posture that exposed multiple data to attackers who were able to take hold of the security system and extract terabytes of critical data (Fruhlinger, 2020). The top executives in the organization were blamed for this occurrence because it would have been prevented had they taken the necessary safeguards. The deep crisis happened for several months, whereby it was initiated in March of 2017 and was discovered in July, the same year.
The organization first experienced a hack via a consumer complaint web portal where the attackers utilized a well- known vulnerability to move from web portal to other servers. This was facilitated by the fact that the systems had not been adequately segmented, an aspect that made hackers obtain the unencrypted usernames and passwords, and eventually accessed the full policy. The vulnerability could have been patched, but the organization had not put such efforts. Hackers successfully extracted the encrypted essential information for several months bearing in mind that Equifax had not renewed encryption certificate (Whittaker, 2018). It took only a few months for the attackers to access the multiple Equifax databases that possessed hundreds of millions of data belonging to customers. Personally identifiable information, including social security numbers and driver's license numbers, was compromised and could be later used to impersonate the customers. This aspect could easily wreak havoc to one's records. This situation was poorly handled because the management took the time to report the incident, and this led to the suspicion of whether the top executive was capable of managing the crisis. If at all Equifax installed the upgraded Apache Struts Software, this system breach could have been prevented.
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Fruhlinger, J. (2020, February 12). Equifax data breach FAQ: What happened, who was affected, what was the impact? Retrieved from
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Whittaker, Z. (2018, December 10). Equifax breach was ‘entirely preventable’ had it used basic security measures, says house report – TechCrunch.
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