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In July 2017, one of the biggest data breaches was due to an insecure and out of date web application platform. This breach would have been prevented if the Apache Struts platform the web application ran on had the most recent updates applied. This is of course, the massive Equifax breach which impacted over 145 million customers. The vulnerability used to expose the data had been discovered in March of 2017 and the attack on Equifax started in May but was not disclosed until July. In hindsight it became an example of how important it is to secure the software supply chain.
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