Equifax staffers used the default user name and password – ‘admin’ – to secure a portal containing sensitive customer information, Computing reported.
That’s according to a class-action lawsuit launched against the company in the US, claiming securities fraud by the company over the 2017 data breach that spilled information on around 148 million accounts of people in the US, Canada and the UK.
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