Credit reporting giant Equifax says data breach could affect 143 million US consumers
by By Paresh Dave, Los Angeles Times
Sep 07, 2017
2 minutes
Equifax, one of the nation's three major credit reporting firms, announced Thursday that its computer systems had been breached, leading to the unauthorized accessing of Social Security numbers and birth dates of up to 143 million U.S. consumers.
The Atlanta-based company said the intrusion - enabled by a website vulnerability - occurred from mid-May through July. The issue was discovered July 29, and the company spent recent weeks working with
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