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9/15/2017 10:31:53 PM Should Equifax Be a Public Utility? By Gareth Jones Bloomberg explore the fact that credit bureaus have little incentive to take hackers seriously and discusses if they should indeed become...
3/27/2015 2:45:07 PM Credit scoring startup Kreditech faced security breach By FinTech Collective Kreditech, which uses big data to create a live credit score for micro-loans, was compromised last November after hackers posted the...