Sept. 7, 2023, 11:09 a.m. | Bruce Schneier

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The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus:


This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header. This is personal information that the credit bureaus Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion have on most adults in America via their credit cards. Through a complex web of agreements and purchases, that …

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