Equifax sent people to spoof website

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Add another "oops" to Equifax's pile. For more than a week, company representatives have been directing consumers to a fake phishing site instead of to one maintained by the credit-reporting agency, according to a new report by The Verge.

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The site — securityequifax2017.com — was created by a software developer to show how easy it would be to spoof the webpage Equifax created to inform consumers about its recent massive security breach, according to the report.

The site Equifax set up is equifaxsecurity2017.com.

"I made the site because Equifax made a huge mistake by using a domain that doesn't have any trust attached to it" as opposed to hosting it on equifax.com, Nick Sweeting, who created the spoof page, told The Verge. "It makes it ridiculously easy for scammers to come in and build clones — they can buy up dozens of domains, and typo-squat to get people to type in their info."

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The company did not provide an explanation for how it made such an obvious mistake, particularly at a time when its practices were already under the spotlight.

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