Equifax blames hack on state actors, but breach followed spat with security contractor

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: October 1, 2017 at 11:47:14 AM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Equifax blames hack on state actors, but breach followed spat with security contractor
>
>
> Equifax blames hack on state actors, but breach followed spat with security contractor
>
> https://boingboing.net/2017/10/01/30-web-shells.html
>
>    Equifax sources say that the massive breach of 140,000,000
>    Americans' personal information was the result of
>    state-sponsored hackers, likely from China, but attribution is
>    hard and inexact. One thing we can attribute the breach to,
>    though, is bungling. Equifax and Mandiant -- its independent
>    security contractor -- got into "a squabble" just as the
>    hackers were breaking into Equifax's systems, and by the time
>    everything had been smoothed over, the attackers had installed
>    30 web-shells in Equifax's systems, any one of which would
>    allow attackers to have free run of Equifax's data.
>
> - - -
>
> --Lauren--



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