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Nearly 700,000 UK Nationals Affected by Equifax Breach: Company
2017-10-10 22:14

Nearly 700,000 British consumers may have had personal data compromised in the massive breach at Equifax, the US credit reporting agency said Tuesday. "Although our UK business was not breached,...

Equifax Ex-CEO Blames One Employee For Patch Failures
2017-10-05 11:18

Did Breach Result From a Perfect Storm, or Were Failures Business as Usual?Equifax ex-CEO Richard Smith asserts that a single employee's failure to heed a security alert led to them failing to...

Congress Grills Equifax Ex-CEO on Breach
2017-10-03 22:03

House Subcommittee Scrutinizes What Happened, Considers Next StepsAt the first of three Congressional hearings slated this week to examine the Equifax mega-breach, one Republican said of the...

Equifax, former CEO reveal more details about the devastating breach
2017-10-03 19:35

Mandiant has concluded the forensic part of its Equifax breach investigation, and the results are as follows: 2.5 million additional US consumers were potentially impacted, bringing the total to...

Equifax Says 145.5M Affected by Breach, Ex-CEO Testifies
2017-10-03 19:27

The credit bureau Equifax said Monday the information of 145.5M Americans, was implicated in this summer's breach.

Equifax Breach Probe: 145.5 Million US Consumers Exposed
2017-10-03 13:03

Mandiant Investigators Find More US Victims, But Fewer Canadians' Data ExposedCredit-reporting agency Equifax says its massive breach was even worse than it suspected, affecting 145.5 million U.S....

Scammers Hosted Files on Equifax's Australian Website
2017-10-03 10:33

Security Error Could Have Been Exploited to Phish Data, Distribute MalwareCredit-reporting agency Equifax's Australian website played host to scammers promoting pirated videos, live streams and...

Equifax Ex-CEO Blames 'Human Error, Tech Failures' for Breach
2017-10-03 08:33

Richard Smith Offers Explanation in Written Testimony Submitted to Congress"Human error and technology failures" led to the massive Equifax breach, the company's former CEO, Richard Smith says in...

Whoops, Turns Out 2.5 Million More Americans Were Affected By Equifax Breach
2017-10-03 01:23

Equifax data breach was bigger than initially reported, exposing highly sensitive information of more Americans than previously revealed. Credit rating agency Equifax says an additional 2.5...

Equifax Breach Bigger Than Initially Reported
2017-10-02 21:16

Number of U.S. Consumers Exposed by Equifax Breach Increased by 2.5 Million read more