Equifax News: Credit-Reporting Company Denies Its System Has Been Hacked Anew

By Vincent Alocada, Christian Post Contributor Friday, October 13, 2017

Equifax has dispelled speculations that its system has been a victim of cyber attack once more.

A spokesman of the credit-reporting company has sent out a statement belying that its system has been hacked anew.

"Equifax can confirm that its systems were not compromised and that the reported issue did not affect our consumer online dispute portal," goes the statement received by CNBC through email.

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"The issue involves a third-party vendor that Equifax uses to collect website performance data, and that vendor's code running on an Equifax website was serving malicious content. Since we learned of the issue, the vendor's code was removed from the webpage and we have taken the webpage offline to conduct further analysis," continues the statement Equifax sent out to, presumably, appease its clients who fear that their personal information would be at risk again.

Rumors about Equifax's system has been a victim of another cyber breach stemmed from the consumer credit company's earlier statement yesterday, Oct.12, saying that its security teams were investigating into another possible attack almost a month after it revealed that a hack had placed the personal information of 145.5 million people at risk.

According to the company's spokesman yesterday morning, Equifax's IT and Security departments were looking into its credit report assistance link on its website as it may have been hacked as well, hence, the decision to take the page offline temporarily.

To recall, Equifax admitted earlier this month that an investigation by an outside security consultant had concluded that the cyber breach it first detected in July was not just a scare after all. Because of the hack, several federal and state investigations were launched and even led Equifax's 12-year chief executive, Richard Smith, to depart from the company.

Since then, Equifax has been more vigilant on possible future cases of cyber attacks as they had been warned that more would attempt to hack their system once news on the earlier attack became public.