<story><title>Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers&apos; queries to work out what was nicked</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/17/gao_report_equifax_mega_breach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>Meanwhile Equifax stock is at ~130 compared to ~145 it had before the news broke of the back. With their lowest dip at ~90 and a long time dragging along at ~110.&lt;p&gt;¯\_(ツ)_&amp;#x2F;¯&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m seriously considering that on the next massive data breach of a public traded company I&amp;#x27;m gonna buy some stock in the onset. Even though it feels like betting against my own principles it just seems like a too good of an opportunity to miss out on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve come to the conclusion that whatever is computerized is going to be leaked. Health records? Might as well open source them for all I care. Red team is tenacious and the steps you have to take to actually keep everything secure make you seem unreasonable.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve moved on. It&amp;#x27;s more important to focus on election security and physical security at this point. Infosec is dead. Five years ago Bruce Schneier wrote a book called &amp;quot;Carry On&amp;quot; now he has one called &amp;quot;Click Here to Kill Everybody&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Just five years.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re in a technological growth feedback function and we&amp;#x27;re unable to predict it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers&apos; queries to work out what was nicked</title><url>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/17/gao_report_equifax_mega_breach/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hetspookjee</author><text>Meanwhile Equifax stock is at ~130 compared to ~145 it had before the news broke of the back. With their lowest dip at ~90 and a long time dragging along at ~110.&lt;p&gt;¯\_(ツ)_&amp;#x2F;¯&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m seriously considering that on the next massive data breach of a public traded company I&amp;#x27;m gonna buy some stock in the onset. Even though it feels like betting against my own principles it just seems like a too good of an opportunity to miss out on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s_dev</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m still at a loss as to how Ashely Madison is still going after their data breach.&lt;p&gt;Everyone user on that site (99% male) was exposed as a complete chump -- it&amp;#x27;s still a functioning business ...</text></comment>