Richard Smith

Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability

2017-05-13 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

Hackers begin systematically exfiltrating personal data of 147.9 million Americans from Equifax systems through an unpatched Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638). The breach, which Equifax would not disclose until September 7, 2017, represents one of the largest cybercrimes related to …

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