Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by dcosson on Friday September 08, 2017 @05:48PM
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How do you freeze them online?
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Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by anyfoo on Friday September 08, 2017 @06:16PM
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Come on, that's really not hard to find out for yourself. But here are the links anyway:
https://www.freeze.equifax.com/ https://freeze.transunion.com/ https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html
Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by mjhoyer on Friday September 08, 2017 @06:59PM
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ugh. even their 10 digit code they provide to unfreeze someone isn't very secure. It's simply todays date plus a 4 digit pin that moves up in the order that someone signs up. For example: 090817xxx1, 090817xxx2. So my wife and I are simply two numbers apart.
Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by pkulak on Friday September 08, 2017 @07:19PM
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Jesus. I think you can provide your own. But yeah, when the user-facing bits are this bad, you know it's nothing but garbage below. I can't believe these companies have so much power.
Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by mrb on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:39AM
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It worse. It's not even a 4 digit PIN. It's the time in 24-hour format HHMM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15205579
You and your wife just did it 1 minute apart...
Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by qw on Saturday September 09, 2017 @04:07AM
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I can't even imagine how something like that can be implemented. Even if you put the most junior developer on this, something so serious should have been reviewed by someone. At least do a quick search on stack overflow or something.