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Postmortem: Multiple Failures Behind the Equifax Breach

A newly released report from the Government Accountability Office on the massive 2017 Equifax data breach provides a postmortem look at what went wrong, centering on the credit bureau's identification, detection, segmentation and data governance, as well as a failure to rate-limit database requests.

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