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Credit reporting agency equifax. Last month the Company Revealed it had been hacked, potentially compromising the data of 145 million people. Since then, the ceo stepped down and apologized. Several other executives also left. There are investigations by federal and state agencies includg the department of justice. Now today the company said it was looking into a possible second breach but later in the day reversed course, kind of, instead of putting the issue on a Third Party Vendor. Andrea day...

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Oh im Adrian Finnigan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u. S. Calls for fairness and transparency to saudi arabia carries out its anticorruption drive. Sexual harassment scandals ministerial slip ups and stalled breaks it talks whats next for britains embattled government. And hash tag two hundred eighty characters why twitter is doubling its one hundred forty character limit and what it means for the social media platform. U. S. President on the trump has arrived in beijing w...

[inaudible conversations] good morning now the executive session is complete data reaches not a new issue weve been focused on the consumer that was before i was elected to the senate. The breach is what many would consider to be the high profile breach with a number of investigations from the federal and state authorities. This was originally created by equifax so in terms of the trajectory the major did reach you could say we could come full circle. Congress paid close attention to the dative ...

Chair good morning, now that our executive session is complete we turn to the issue of data breaches. This is not a new issue. The committee has been focused on the Consumer Impact since before i was elected to the senate. The september 2004 choice point breach was considered to be the first highprofile data breach in the modern era prompted investigations from this committee and state authorities. Choice point was a data Aggregation Company originally as fateby equifax who would have it is repr...

Proceedings on the postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass the bill h. R. 3973, the market Data Protection act of 2017. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. Union calendar number 299. H. R. 3973, a bill to amend the securities and exchanges act of 1934 to require certain entities to develop internal risks, control mechanisms to safeguard and govern t...

I dont know when the time is 10 30 or 10 45 but theres a vote scheduled on the senate floor. Its my intention to keep the meeting it during that vote and well take turns going. So somebody needs to be here presiding while i go vote and i will run over and run back. And well do the questioning according to the fall of the gavel or early birds, whichever rule applies. Director comey, welcome. We thank the fbi for what it does to keep america safe. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding th...

Encryption solution on the i. R. S. Side. We are working with the department of ed. Mr. Hurd how will it help with authentication if you have a user that has stolen credentials . Ms. Garza the solution that we had looked at was not satisfactory to provide the useability of the application so we have moved to an encryption so unless that mr. Hurd that doesnt answer the question. The question is, how does encryption on the back end help with authentication of an attacker that is using stolen crede...

The key word is trying to come up with a solution is not sure we have arrived at that. After the october 2016 discovery that the dit could be vulnerable the irs is monitoring for any suspicious activity, we engaged with our friends. And asked them, and suspicious activity in january. And an incident in february, multilayer Defense Mechanisms, one of the mechanisms is notification to the address record for the individual. That led us to identify the we had an issue, we were able to find that in f...

The key word is trying to come up with a solution is not sure we have arrived at that. After the october 2016 discovery that the dit could be vulnerable the irs is monitoring for any suspicious activity, we engaged with our friends. And asked them, and suspicious activity in january. And an incident in february, multilayer Defense Mechanisms, one of the mechanisms is notification to the address record for the individual. That led us to identify the we had an issue, we were able to find that in f...