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Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy
Wednesday February 27, 2019. 04:36 PM , from Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: In a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) asked whether Equifax CEO Mark Begor would be willing to share his address, birth date, and Social Security number publicly at the hearing. Begor declined, citing the risk of 'identity theft,' letting Porter criticize Equifax's legal response to the 2017 security breach that exposed almost 150 million people's data of that sort to an unknown intruder. The company had unsuccessfully asked a judge presiding over a class-action suit over the breach to dismiss it, saying the plaintiffs hadn't 'sufficiently alleged injury and proximate causation' to bring suit, as Yahoo Finance reported late last month.
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