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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomeone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It.--NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/equifax-fake-website.html?action=click&contentCollection=Well&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=articleSomeone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It.
by Maggie Astor
People create fake versions of big companies websites all the time, usually for phishing purposes. But the companies do not usually link to them by mistake.
Equifax, however, did just that after Nick Sweeting, a software engineer, created an imitation of equifaxsecurity2017.com, Equifaxs page about the security breach that may have exposed 143 million Americans personal information. Several posts from the companys Twitter account directed consumers to Mr. Sweetings version, securityequifax2017.com. They were deleted after the mistake was publicized.
By Wednesday evening, the Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers had blacklisted Mr. Sweetings site, and he took it down. By that time, he said, it had received about 200,000 hits.
Fortunately for the people who clicked, Mr. Sweetings website was upfront about what it was. The layout was the same as the real version, complete with an identical prompt at the top: To enroll in complimentary identity theft protection and credit file monitoring, click here. But a headline in large text differed: Cybersecurity Incident & Important Consumer Information Which is Totally Fake, Why Did Equifax Use A Domain Thats So Easily Impersonated By Phishing Sites?
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Someone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It.--NY Times (Original Post)
oppressedproletarian
Sep 2017
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uponit7771
(90,347 posts)1. Jus ... wow Equifax !!!
Iggo
(47,558 posts)2. Someone.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)3. OMG. They need to be put out of business.
We as consumers have NO CHOICE but to have our critical data stored by this grossly incompetent business. Who is looking out for US?