The exploit was utilized by the hackers to access internal servers on the corporate network of Equifax. Internal Equifax staff login credentials were among the data that the hackers initially obtained, and using these credentials, they were able to search the credit monitoring databases as an authorized user.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army and four hackers, Wu Zhiyong, Wang Qian, Xu Ke, and Liu Lei, have been charged with orchestrating the attack in a nine-count indictment, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
According to Equifax's investigation into the breach, four key elements—identification, detection, segmenting database access, and data governance—were crucial in enabling the attacker to successfully access the company's network and extract data from databases containing personally identifiable information.
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