Security News

SEC Charges a Former Equifax CIO With Insider Trading
2018-03-14 18:17

Jun Ying Allegedly Dumped Stock After Deducing Equifax Had Suffered Mega-BreachThe Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice have both charged Jun Ying, a former CIO at data...

Former Equifax CIO Charged With Insider Trading
2018-03-14 15:17

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it has charged Jun Ying, former chief information officer (CIO) of a business unit of Equifax, with insider trading in connection...

Equifax Adds 2.4 Million More People to List of Those Impacted By 2017 Breach
2018-03-02 20:12

Equifax said that an additional 2.4 million Americans have been impacted by a 2017 data breach, bringing the total of those implicated to around 148 million people.

Equifax Discloses 2.4 Million More Mega-Breach Victims
2018-03-02 10:03

Breach Costs Hit $114 Million, But Data Broker Still Sees Revenues RiseEquifax has identified 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and snippets of their driver's license numbers were stolen,...

Equifax Identifies 2.4 Million More Affected by Massive Hack
2018-03-02 03:26

US credit bureau Equifax said Thursday it identified an additional 2.4 million American consumers affected by last year's massive data breach that sparked a public outcry and a congressional...

Equifax Gets a New CISO
2018-02-13 12:03

Jamil Farshchi Moves From Home Depot to Beleaguered Credit BureauAfter suffering one of the worst data breaches in history, in which 145.5 million U.S. consumers' personal details were stolen,...

Equifax Hires Former Home Depot Security Chief Jamil Farshchi as CISO
2018-02-13 00:20

Credit reporting agency Equifax announced on Monday that it has named Jamil Farshchi as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).  read more

Equifax Confirms 'Probable' Breached Data Was Indeed Stolen
2018-02-12 21:03

Breach Victim Tally Remains Unchanged, But Investigators Find More PII StolenEquifax says that its digital forensic investigators have found that while its tally of 145.5 million U.S. breach...

Equifax Breach: Worse Than Advertised
2018-02-12 14:03

Digital Forensic Investigators Find Hackers Stole Even More Personal DataHackers stole even more information than previously reported last year in the massive breach of Equifax, the credit bureau...

New Details Surface on Equifax Breach
2018-02-12 10:07

Documents provided recently by Equifax to senators revealed that the breach suffered by the company last year may have involved types of data not mentioned in the initial disclosure of the...