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Workspace Storage Copy Data Management
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 15, 2026

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Unpatched Vulnerability Patch Register

PROBLEM: On 22 July 2019 Equifax agreed to pay at least $575 million, and potentially up to $700 million, in a global settlement with the FTC, CFPB and 50 states and territories over its 2017 data breach affecting approximately 147 million people. The FTC alleged Equifax failed to patch its network after being alerted in March 2017 to a critical Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) affecting its ACIS database, and that the breach exposed at least 147 million names and dates of birth, 145.5 million Social Security numbers and 209,000 payment-card numbers.

SOLUTION: A Storage Copy Data Management improvement that maintains an unpatched-vulnerability patch register: every critical vulnerability alert, affected system, patch decision, owner and deadline is logged with its evidence, so an unpatched system cannot sit silently past its deadline without a recorded owner and escalation.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — FTC/CFPB/states, 22 Jul 2019: Equifax at least $575M (up to $700M) over the 2017 breach of ~147M people; FTC alleged failure to patch critical Apache Struts vulnerability CVE-2017-5638 after a March 2017 alert.

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