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[42] [43] Equifax narrowed its estimate for UK consumers affected by the breach to 15.2 million in October 2017, [44] [45] of which 693,665 had sensitive personal data disclosed. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 44 ] [ 48 ] [ 45 ] Equifax also estimated that the number of drivers' licenses breached in the attack to be 10-11 million.
Several consumers filed lawsuits in small-claims court against Equifax due to the breach, while Equifax later came to a $575 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to offer either a cash payment or credit monitoring for those affected by the breach. [52] The data from the breach has yet to be seen on black markets or the dark web ...
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 ...
2017 Equifax data breach – In 2017, Equifax Inc. announced that a cyber-security breach occurred between May and mid July of that year. Cyber criminals had accessed approximately 145.5 million U.S. Equifax consumers' personal data, including their full names, Social Security numbers , credit card information, birth dates , addresses , and, in ...
Equifax will pay up to $700M to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information.
The 2017 breach was one of the largest affecting people's private information. Equifax to pay up to $700 million in breach settlement [Video] Skip to main content
The data breach's legitimacy is confirmed by computer security researcher Troy Hunt. [94] ... May–July 2017: The Equifax breach. [116] September 2017: ...
The 2017 Equifax data breach was already extremely serious by itself, but there are hints it was somehow worse. CNN has learned that Equifax told the US Senate Banking Committee that more data may ...