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  • Equifax breach could be most costly in corporate history

    Equifax said it expects costs related to its massive 2017 data breach to surge by US$275 million this year, suggesting the incident at the credit reporting bureau could turn out to be the most costly hack in corporate history.

  • Hacking costs hit Equifax

    Equifax has reported lower quarterly profit, and quarterly revenue missed estimates, as the credit bureau warned that its massive data breach had prompted some customers to hold back business.

  • Equifax denies it was hacked again

    Equifax Inc said on Thursday that one of its third-party vendors had been running malicious code on one its web pages, but that the credit reporting agency was not the subject of another cyber attack and its systems were not compromised.

  • 15.2 million UK records exposed in Equifax breach

    Credit reporting agency Equifax Inc said on Tuesday that 15.2 million client records in Britain were compromised in the massive cyber attack it disclosed last month, including sensitive information affecting nearly 700,000 consumers.

  • Equifax failed to patch security vulnerability in March: former CEO

    US company ​Equifax was alerted in March to the software security vulnerability that led to hackers obtaining personal information of more than 140 million Americans but took months to patch it, its former CEO said in testimony to be delivered to Congress on Tuesday.

  • Site hosting leaked celebrity data goes offline

    A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The last person to have his alleged private information exposed on the site was CIA director John Brennan.

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