Massive Credit Bureau stored users’ plaintext passwords in plaintext file, U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office says. Breach led to the loss of personal information for 145.5 million U.S. consumers and 15.2 million Canadian consumers. Equifax generated massive profits from buying, sharing and selling personal information – often without individuals’ knowledge – but still failed to have the right resources in place to ensure that it was also securing this sensitive information. “There is no excuse for developers to be using live data in testing environments,” the ICO says.”]
Source: https://www.databreachtoday.com/blogs/was-equifax-so-stupid-about-passwords-p-2666