The Equifax hack that saw data of millions of Americans compromised might as well have been state-sponsored, new media reports have claimed . As the investigation unfolds, reports have started coming out that some elements of the attack point to a state-sponsored play, although nobody is pointing any fingers. Bloomberg says the hack might have been initiated by a less experienced group, but it seems as they had handed over the baton to a more "sophisticated" team somewhere along the line. Researchers have said that some of the tools used in the hack were of Chinese origin, and that the hack itself…
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