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Equifax used ‘admin’ as username and password for sensitive data: lawsuit

Published by Support on October 19, 2019

Ethan Wolff-Mann reports: Equifax used the word “admin” as both password and username for a portal that contained sensitive information, according to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia. The lawsuit, filed in January, went viral on Twitter Friday after Buzzfeed reporter Jane Lytvynenko came across the detail. Read more on Yahoo! Finance.

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