IRS hands fraud prevention contract to Equifax despite massive hack

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You'd think that government agencies would be reticent to work with Equifax given that it just exposed the private info of more than 145 million people through a preventable hack, but a massive data breach apparently isn't enough of a deterrent. The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded Equifax a fraud prevention contract that will have it verifying taxpayer identities. And crucially, it was a no-bid, "sole source" contract -- Equifax was deemed the only company capable of fulfilling demand.

More at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irs-hands-fraud-prevention-contract-224500749.html

 

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[h=1]IRS Pulls Equifax Contract In "Precautionary Step"[/h]http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-12/irs-pulls-equifax-contract-precautionary-step

 

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Well they are the security experts.

[h=1]Equifax website is apparently hacked[/h]