Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their...

[update] American Airlines suffers data breach after phishing incident

Major airline American Airlines has fallen victim to a data breach after a threat actor got access to the email accounts of several employees via a phishing attack. According to a published notice of a security incident, the data breach was discovered in July 2022. How it happened American Airlin...

Class Action Targets Experian Over Account Security

A class action lawsuit has been filed against big-three consumer credit bureau Experian over reports that the company did little to prevent identity thieves from hijacking consumer accounts. The legal filing cites liberally from an investigation KrebsOnSecurity published in July, which found that...

Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasnt theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts...

CVE-2022-29950

Experian Hunter 1.16 allows remote authenticated users to modify assumed-immutable elements via the 1 rule name parameter to the Rules page or the 2 subrule name or 3 categories name parameter to the Subrules page. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because version 1.16 has never existed...

CVE-2022-29950

Experian Hunter 1.16 allows remote authenticated users to modify assumed-immutable elements via the 1 rule name parameter to the Rules page or the 2 subrule name or 3 categories name parameter to the Subrules page. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because version 1.16 has never existed...

Code injection

DISPUTED Experian Hunter 1.16 allows remote authenticated users to modify assumed-immutable elements via the 1 rule name parameter to the Rules page or the 2 subrule name or 3 categories name parameter to the Subrules page. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because version 1.16 has never existed...

CVE-2022-29950

Experian Hunter 1.16 allows remote authenticated users to modify assumed-immutable elements via the 1 rule name parameter to the Rules page or the 2 subrule name or 3 categories name parameter to the Subrules page. NOTE: the vendor disputes this because version 1.16 has never existed...

CVE-2022-29950

Experian Hunter 1.16 is described as allowing remote authenticated users to modify assumed-immutable elements via (1) the rule name parameter on the Rules page or (2) the subrule name or (3) the categories name parameters on the Subrules page. Red Hat and NVD entries reiterate this description, a...

Experian Hunter 安全漏洞

Experian Hunter is used by Experian to prevent application fraud across all channels. A security vulnerability exists in Experian Hunter version 1.16. A remote attacker exploited the vulnerability to modify Experian Hunter via 1 the Rule Name parameter on the Rule page 2 the Sub-Rule Name 3 the...

PT-2022-19930 · Experian · Experian Hunter

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Experian Hunter version 1.16 Description: The issue allows remote authenticated users to modify assumed-immutable elements. This can be achieved via the rule name parameter to the "Rules page" or the subrule name or categories name parameter ...

The 5 Most-Wanted Threatpost Stories of 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, and the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, it’s time to take stock of what resonated with our 1 million+ monthly visitors this year, with an eye to summing up some hot trends gleaned from looking at the most-read stories on the Threatpost site. While 2020 was all about...

Coursera Flunks API Test in Researchers’ Security Exam

Researchers have discovered multiple application programming interface API issues in Coursera, the online learning platform used by 82 million learners and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. On Thursday, the Checkmarx Security Research Team published a report on its findings, which included user...

Experian API Leaks Most Americans’ Credit Scores

A researcher is claiming that the credit scores of almost every American were exposed through an API tool used by the Experian credit bureau, that he said was left open on a lender site without even basic security protections. Experian, for its part, refuted concerns from the security community...

Experian API Exposed Credit Scores of Most Americans

Big-three consumer credit bureau Experian just fixed a weakness with a partner website that let anyone look up the credit score of tens of millions of Americans just by supplying their name and mailing address, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Experian says it has plugged the data leak, but the...

Experian’s Credit Freeze Security is Still a Joke

In 2017, KrebsOnSecurity showed how easy it is for identity thieves to undo a consumers request to freeze their credit file at Experian, one of the big three consumer credit bureaus in the United States. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who had his freeze thawed without authorizatio...

stg1.experian.co.kr Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1346171

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

stg1.experian.co.nz Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1346168

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

stg1.experian.com.sg Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1346169

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

stg1.experian.co.jp Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1346163

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...