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In late July of 2017, credit reporting powerhouse Equifax disclosed that a group of unknown hackers had compromised the personal information—including driver’s license numbers and Social Security Numbers—of over 145 million customers. The attack was the latest in an ever-growing wave of public breaches and hacks that had already struck Target, Ashley Madison, and CitiGroup, among others. Millions of people were left vulnerable to identity theft, all due to one company’s negligence.
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Trivedi, V. (2019). Security. In: How to Speak Tech. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4324-4_12
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