{"id":25469,"date":"2017-09-11T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25469"},"modified":"2017-09-11T06:48:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:48:47","slug":"hackers-break-into-equifax-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25469","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Break Into Equifax \u2013 Big Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/world-news\/corruption\/hackers-break-equifax-big-time\/\">Hackers Break Into Equifax \u2013 Big Time!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"contentMeta\">Welcome to the reality of the Digital World and there are those in government who want to eliminate cash and force everyone into electronic deposits. Well the new\u00a0data breach at credit bureau Equifax appears to have affected up to 143 million people. On top of that, Equifax has been slow to deal with the issue. This is reminiscent of the real Insider Trading from the 1930s when directors realized the company was bankrupt\u00a0so they sold their stock before any announcement. Here we have the company\u2019s chief financial officer and two other senior executives cashing in on almost $2 million of Equifax stock once they learned about the hack, according to Business Insider\u2019s Mohammed Hadi and Bryan Logan.<\/div>\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p>The Equifax data breach may have really profound lasting effects . Because they may have access to your information on consumers\u2019 credit reports, including their Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and driver\u2019s license numbers, they could open credit accounts in consumers\u2019 names. They then could file an income tax return and get a refund before you even file your taxes. The\u00a0Federal Trade Commission warned consumers last Friday to file their taxes early \u2014 \u201cas soon as you have the tax information you need, before a scammer can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IRS doesn\u2019t initiate any contact with taxpayers by email, text message or social-media channels requesting any information. If anyone is contacted, be very concerned and do not answer any questions or validate anything. Call an accountant ASAP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers Break Into Equifax \u2013 Big Time! Welcome to the reality of the Digital World and there are those in government who want to eliminate cash and force everyone into electronic deposits. Well the new\u00a0data breach at credit bureau Equifax appears to have affected up to 143 million people. On top of that, Equifax has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[5496,1035,3894,2148,5479,4927],"class_list":["post-25469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-cash","tag-equifax","tag-hacking","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-war-on-cash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25471,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions\/25471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}