How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity reports that Equifax's Work Number division makes salary history for tens of millions of employees available to anyone holding a Social Security number and date of birth, and that some 70,000 companies including Amazon, AT&T, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, Twitter and Wal-Mart pay Equifax to collect and resell their employees' income and work history. Equifax disabled the salary portal hours after the October 8 story went live and did not fully reopen it until November 2, after unspecified security improvements.
What you should know: The SSN and date of birth needed to pull this data are the same details stolen on 145.5 million Americans in the Equifax breach, and the same Workforce portal was abused for a full year by identity thieves running tax refund fraud against the IRS.
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