Equifax's payroll division "TALX" is a bucket of suck just like their credit reporting division [0].
Identity thieves prize the W-2 and payroll data held by companies like TALX because they can use it to file fraudulent tax refund requests with the IRS and the states on behalf of victim consumers.
Fraudsters reset customer PINs by answering simple "knowledge-based authentication" questions.
Naturally many of the answers to these questions are in the data leaked by the credit reporting division.
Identity thieves prize the W-2 and payroll data held by companies like TALX because they can use it to file fraudulent tax refund requests with the IRS and the states on behalf of victim consumers.
Fraudsters reset customer PINs by answering simple "knowledge-based authentication" questions.
Naturally many of the answers to these questions are in the data leaked by the credit reporting division.
[0] Fraudsters Exploited Lax Security at Equifax’s TALX Payroll Division https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/05/fraudsters-exploited-lax...