{"id":45499,"date":"2017-10-03T06:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45499"},"modified":"2017-10-03T06:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:15:49","slug":"equifax-says-cyber-attack-may-have-hit-2-5-million-more-u-s-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/equifax-says-cyber-attack-may-have-hit-2-5-million-more-u-s-consumers.html","title":{"rendered":"Equifax says cyber attack may have hit 2.5 million more U.S. consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Equifax says cyber attack may have hit 2.5 million more U.S. consumers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Equifax says cyber attack may have hit 2.5 million more U.S. consumers: U.S. credit reporting firm Equifax Inc (EFX.N) said about 2.5 million additional U.S. consumers may have been impacted by a cyber attack at the company last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Equifax disclosed last month that personal details of up to 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July, in one of the largest data breaches in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which did the forensic review, also concluded that there was no evidence the attackers had accessed databases located outside of the United States, Equifax said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Source:http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-equifax-cyber\/equifax-says-cyber-attack-may-have-hit-2-5-million-more-u-s-consumers-idUSKCN1C61Y4<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/equifax-says-cyber-attack-may-have-hit-2-5-million-more-u-s-consumers.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equifax says cyber attack may have hit 2.5 million more U.S. consumers Equifax says cyber attack may have hit 2.5 million more U.S. consumers: U.S. credit reporting firm Equifax Inc (EFX.N) said about 2.5 million additional U.S. consumers may have been impacted by a cyber attack at the company last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30053,30054,68387,30039],"class_list":["post-45499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-updates-usa-news","tag-current-business-updates-usa","tag-equifax-says-cyber-attack-may-have-hit-2-5-million-more-u-s-consumers","tag-latest-business-updates-usa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}