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		david_shaw on Dec 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach... My guess is that they were using private certificates to read encrypted data, without which they couldn't inspect their traffic.

jacquesm on Dec 10, 2018 [–]

The exfiltration attempt would have likely been triggered on volume alone. Possibly it was simply a service that could not longer connect due to a lapsed cert trying to raise the alarm.

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