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The Equifax Breach and the Danger of Poor Data Security

1 The Equifax Breach and the Danger of Poor Data Security

By Patrick Vernon, freelance writer.

Equifax bragged about holding thousands of times more data than the Library of Congress. However, the “entirely preventable” Equifax data breach demonstrated that the company did not know how to properly protect that data.

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