While Equifax had revealed that names, dates of birth, and Social Security estimates might have been endangered, as well as some drivers’ license numbers, the records reveal that the license state and date of issue of those licenses might have been endangered. According to the News, further information that Equifax may have lost includes tax identification numbers which the Internal Revenue Service sometimes names in alternate to an SSN and email addresses.
An Equifax spokeswoman told the Journal the business complied with administrative requirements and that they didn’t hold the “irrelevant” number of email addresses lost to be delicate because they’re often openly accessible. Similarly, the organization downplayed the new discoveries to News:
Equifax spokesperson Meredith Griffanti told News Friday that the initial list of vulnerable personal data was never intended to serve the full list of potentiality presented information.
The new documents quickly bring Equifax’s credibility into even further problem following numerous other damaging announcements, including a malware-infested website, executives who dumped stock after the company noticed the hack, and the news the business was warned months before about security vulnerabilities and did nothing.
This week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren sprang a report on the Equifax hack which assumed that the company could be hiding that it also lost passport numbers. In a follow-up letter on Friday, Warren demanded the organization immediately release the full extent of the possibly endangered information and denounced its “incomplete, confusing and contradictory statements.” Equifax told the New York Post hackers had simply “reached” a database with a “field labeled passports with no actual data in it,” which seems further than a little curious.
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