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Per the complaint, with my notes in brackets: Project Sparta [breach tooling team] was kept separate from Project Sierra [breach action team] to limit the numb
by withinrafael 9y ago
Per the complaint, with my notes in brackets:
Project Sparta [breach tooling team] was kept separate from Project Sierra [breach action team] to limit the number of people who knew that Equifax itself had been breached. Those Equifax employees who were only part of Project Sparta were not told that Equifax had been breached, but were instead told that they were working for an unnamed client that had experienced a large data breach [...]
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-40.pdf https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-4...
- googlryas 9y agoI suppose the firewalls between Project Sparta, Sierra, and the rest of the company explain why the 'equifaxsecurity2017.com' or whatever it was called website was a completely separate thing and not part of equifax.com
- newbie912 9y agoNo, that was public relations 101. Equifax the company and their domain can move past the beach without dragging along the baggage that's attached to that quasi-random, only ever so slightly connected domain. Mitigation playbook page 1, baby!