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Noted security expert Brian Krebs has discovered that credit monitoring firm Equifax who were pwned by hackers which in turn led to the largest data breach in history and significant fallout had an employee tool based in Argentina that could be accessed by using the user name “admin” and the password “admin”. By using those credentials, he got access to records that included the Argentine equivalent of a social security number.
#fail
This is straight up horrible IT security. No wonder these clowns were pwned. The entire planet needs to sue them out of existence. Not only that, governments in the countries that Equifax operates in need slap them silly from a legislation perspective. Because frankly, this is unacceptable.