In 2017, Equifax was compromised in a cyberattack that the company attributes to the Chinese military. The intrusion was made possible by an employee running an unpatched and thus insecure version of Apache Struts. Personal information for about 146.6 million people in the US, Canada, and the UK is said to have been taken as a result of the incident. The massive hack led Equifax to invest $1.5 billion "to build a top-tier, cloud-native technology and security infrastructure," as the company puts it. Yet the remedial infrastructure and security investment evidently failed to prevent the "coding issue." Equifax suggests that by accelerating its migration of the affected on-premises environment to the cloud, the availability of additional controls and monitoring will help catch and prevent similar problems in the future. We can only hope. ®