In 2017, consumer credit rating giant Equifax suffered one of the country's largest data breaches, exposing the personal information of 147 million U.S. citizens, or roughly 40% of the population, to ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Equifax breach didn’t just expose sensitive personal information of 143 million Americans – it underscored the huge vulnerabilities that make widespread identity theft possible.

The Equifax breach may have exposed more personal information of customers than previously thought. Additional information, including tax IDs and driver’s license details, may have been accessed in a ...

House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday grilled Equifax's former chief executive over the massive data hack of the personal information of 145 million Americans, calling the company's response ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Credit monitoring company Equifax has been hit by a high-tech heist that exposed the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information about 143 million Americans. Now the ...

What will it take for Equifax to get back in the good graces of consumers? If you consider that it was hit with one of the worst data breaches in recent These industries are the most vulnerable to ...

It's hard to imagine how Equifax could have handled its data breach crisis worse. "All they've done is terrify people more," said Ed Zitron, founder of media relations company EZPR. How badly did ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Credit report company Equifax said Monday that an additional 2.5 million Americans may have been affected by the massive security breach of its systems, bringing the total to 145.5 ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Remember the Equifax breach? In late 2017, the credit-reporting company revealed that hackers had stolen the personal data of more than 145 million people — including Social ...

DALLAS (AP) - Equifax has disclosed to lawmakers that its data breach exposed more of consumers' personal information than the company first made public last year. The credit reporting company ...

Equifax has taken down one of its web pages after reports of another hack. This time hackers reportedly altered Equifax’s credit report assistance page. That allowed thieves to send users malicious ...