The Case of the Missing Data

The latest twist in the Equifax breach has serious implications for organizations.

When the Equifax breach — one of the largest breaches of all time — went public nearly a year-and-a-half ago, it was widely assumed that the data had been stolen for nefarious financial purposes. But as the resulting frenzy of consumer credit freezes and monitoring programs spread, investigators who were tracking the breach behind the scenes made an interesting discovery.

The data had up and vanished.

This was surprising because if the data had, in fact, been stolen with the ultimate goal of committing financial fraud, experts would have expected it to be sold on the Dark Web. At the very least, they would have expected to see a wave of fraudulent credit transactions.

Nada.

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