In late March, Congress decided to remove the privacy rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission in 2016. Despite the devastating hack Equifax still won an anti-fraud contract from the Internal Revenue Service, though it was later suspended. ![]() A failure to install current security patches on its network opened the door to the attack, the company said. The hackers struck in the spring, seizing 143 million Social Security numbers-that’s more than half of the U.S. Equifax is one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States. “Jaw-dropping” does not begin to describe the Equifax breach, which came to light in September. ![]() Then in April the Shadow Brokers-an anonymous group of hackers that first came to notoriety in 2016-released a trove of attack tools linked to the National Security Agency.īoth releases would have significant impacts on computer device security.
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