LendingIntelligence.com, a consumer credit news organisation, reports that Ford Motor Credit Co and its credit bureau contractor Experian still do not know how a hacker managed to break security systems and steal 13,000 consumers’ credit reports from Experian.
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Four months ago one or more computer hackers got access to at least one Ford Credit authorisation code and downloaded about 13,000 credit reports from Experian’s database. LendingIntelligence.com says that how this transpired is still a point of debate between Experian and Ford officials.
A Ford spokesman told the website that the hackers did not break into Ford’s computer systems but “broke into the credit bureau’s system,” referring to Experian.
But an Experian spokesman said that Experian’s security is anything but porous, telling the website that Experian files ‘are protected by state-of-the-art, Star Wars-style security and encryption technology’.
A Ford Credit spokesperson said the FBI has ‘leads’ on the crime’s perpetrators.
