Former Equifax exec Jun Ying has been charged with insider trading, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ying is accused of knowing that Equifax had been hacked and selling company shares before the public was notified. Ying, who was “next in line to the be company’s global CIO, allegedly used confidential information entrusted to him by […]
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Equifax exec charged with insider trading, selling shares ahead of hack news
Former Equifax exec Jun Ying has been charged with insider trading, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ying is accused of knowing that Equifax had been hacked and selling company shares before the public was notified. Ying, who was “next in line to the be company’s global CIO, allegedly used confidential information entrusted to him by […]
View More Equifax exec charged with insider trading, selling shares ahead of hack newsEquifax just reminded us that it’s still the goddamn worst
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Equifax somehow still manages to surprise us.
The credit-reporting agency whose allegedly shoddy security practices allowed hackers to steal the personal information of potentially 143 million Americans is back in the news, and it’s not for anything good. In fact, it’s bad — like an additional 2.4 million Americans bad.
On the off chance that you had somehow managed to put the company’s mid-2017 case of likely catastrophic negligence behind you, the get-rich-or-fuck-you-over-trying folks are back to remind everyone just how much we hate them with the bombshell that even more people were hit by hack than originally reported. Read more…
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