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The Massive Equifax Breach May Reduce the Strength of “Out of Wallet” Authentication Techniques

September 7, 2017 Jeff Schmidt
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Equifax announced a breach potentially impacting 143 million U.S. consumers. My initial concern beyond potential “routine” identity fraud is the erosion of identity proofing techniques based on “out of wallet” (OOW) questions.

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