Earlier this month, Equifax discovered that hackers had gained access to its info on more than 40% of Americans over the summer, so they set up a website where potential victims could check to see if they had been affected: www.equifaxsecurity2017.com. He set up shop on securityequifax2017.com, a typo on the original site that consumers could easily reach by mistake, and created a faux version of Equifax's site for potential breach victims (but which didn't save any private info they might have entered). As the Verge reported, Equifax tweeted the link for Sweeting's securityequifax2017.com four times to potential breach victims who asked the company for assistance on Twitter, reaching as far back at September 9. According to the Verge, Equifax deleted the tweets shortly after the website published its article about the mix-up yesterday. By Wednesday evening, the fake Equifax site had been blacklisted by Firefox, Safari, and Chrome browsers, and Sweeting had taken it down.

Source: Forbes September 21, 2017 17:29 UTC