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==Data breach==
==Data breach==
In July 2017, hackers accessed the Equifax records of 143 million consumers. Among these are a many people who have never dealt directly with Equifax, both within the U.S. and abroad.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/massive-equifax-data-breach-could-impact-half-u-s-population-n799686 Retrieved Sept. 9, 2017</ref> The attackers gained access using a known vulnerability in Apache Struts (CVE-2017-5638). A patch for the issues had been available since march 2017, but not used by Equifax.
In July 2017, hackers accessed the Equifax records of 143 million consumers. Among these are many people who have never dealt directly with Equifax, both within the U.S. and abroad.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/massive-equifax-data-breach-could-impact-half-u-s-population-n799686 Retrieved Sept. 9, 2017</ref> The attackers gained access using a known vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) in Apache Struts.<ref>investor.equifax.com/news-and-events/news/2017/09-15-2017-224018832</ref> A patch for the issue had been available since March 2017, but not used by Equifax.<ref>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5638</ref>
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