{"id":229075,"date":"2017-09-14T10:33:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T08:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=229075"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:04:12","slug":"equifax-hack-due-to-old-bug-in-apache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/229075-equifax-hack-due-to-old-bug-in-apache.html","title":{"rendered":"Equifax hack due to old bug in Apache Struts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attack on Equifax which resulted in the private data of 143 million people being exposed was due to an old vulnerability that should have been patched, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/09\/massive-equifax-breach-caused-by-failure-to-patch-two-month-old-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ars Technica reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Equifax is a consumer credit reporting agency which collects and aggregates information on consumers and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Equifax has been intensely investigating the scope of the intrusion with the assistance of a cybersecurity firm to determine what information was accessed and who has been impacted,&#8221; it\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equifaxsecurity2017.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that criminals exploited a US website application vulnerability. The vulnerability was Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638. We continue to work with law enforcement as part of our criminal investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apache Struts is an open-source web application framework for developing Java web applications. It is used by banks,\u00a0government agencies, and companies &#8211; including other credit reporting services.<\/p>\n<p>Ars Technica noted that the vulnerability was patched over two months ago, suggesting the breach could have been prevented.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/228223-anonymous-hacks-saab-grintek-defence-in-south-africa.html\">Anonymous hacks Saab Grintek Defence in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The breach of Equifax was due to an old vulnerability that should have been patched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":123802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24470,46035,46033],"class_list":["post-229075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apache","tag-apache-struts","tag-equifax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229119,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229075\/revisions\/229119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}