The Bug that caused the Equifax Breach was just two months old

“Equifax has been deeply examining the scope of the interference with the support of a leading, independent cyber security firm to discover what information was obtained and who have been impacted,” company executives wrote in an update posted online. “We understand that offenders exploited a US website employment vulnerability. The vulnerability was Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638. We remain to work with law requirement as part of our illegal investigation, and have experienced indicators of agreement with law enforcement.”

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