What's that, Equifax? Most people expect to be notified of a breach within hours?

[steve2470]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/19/equifax_breach_experts/

Equifax hasn't found time for a houseclean and is making claims of authority and competence about security breaches that, following its own recent high profile breach, come off as pretty cringeworthy.

An autumn 2016 whitepaper from Equifax - still available here at the time of publication – attempts to position the credit scoring agency as a go-to firm for organisations unfortunate or careless enough to suffer a security breach.

How would you reassure your customers – and satisfy regulators – if your business experienced a data breach?
Equifax is ideally placed to help businesses if they experience a data breach. We have one of the largest sources of detailed consumer data in the UK.

The offer is particularly out of place in the wake of Equifax's widely criticised response to a breach at the credit reference agency that exposed the personal details of 143 million US consumers and 400,000 Brits.

Perhaps Equifax execs might want to re-visit their own Identity Theft and Data Breach whitepaper themselves, assuming they still have a job that is. Perhaps it would interest them that 63 per cent of punters want to know about a breach within hours of its occurrence? Not, er, the months it took Equifax to reveal its own dirty secret.

[Sunlei]

1. imo, they let the data loose to sell more identy theft subscriptions. Corps should pay -us-.