Equifax

Quick One: Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’

This is just a quick post inspired by some comments that I’ve seen recently on Twitter following some mega-breaches.

The term ‘Identity Theft’ implies, and its usage accepts, that the person whose identity is being stolen is the…

Equifax Shenanigans

As we enter the breach era, the sheer scale of the Equifax breach almost fails to register or most people; hundreds-of-millions of people being impacted is unimaginable for us. But one number — which seemed to be swallowed up by the wider story — was 44 million Brits are likely to be affected…