For several hours on Wednesday the site was compromised again, this time to deliver fraudulent Adobe Flash updates, which when clicked, infected visitors' computers with adware that was detected by only three of 65 antivirus providers.

Randy Abrams, an independent security analyst by day, happened to visit the site Wednesday evening to contest what he said was false information he had just found on his credit report. Eventually, his browser opened up a page on the domain hxxp:centerbluray.info that looked like this:

With each new revelation about the devastating Equifax breach, the company's defenses and response appear increasingly inadequate.

Piratage d’Equifax : jusqu’à 143 millions de victimes, des données très sensibles dérobées. C’est un exemple, l’un des meilleurs à ce jour avec Yahoo, que les données ne sont pas comme l’or noir mais comme de l’uranium : en posséder beaucoup est très dangereux.

Equifax’s chief executive had a simple strategy when he joined more than a decade ago: Gather as much personal data as possible and find new ways to sell it.

If you want to know if you were one of the 143 million people whose data was breached in a hack of Equifax’s data, the company has a website you can use to find out — but there appears to be a catch: To check, you have to agree to give up your legal right to sue the company for damages. The outrage that clause has now generated could complicate the company’s efforts — backed by Republican lawmakers — to block an imminent rule that would ban companies from forcing customers to agree to such provisions.

Class action seeking to represent 143 million consumers alleges company didn’t spend enough on protecting data.