MORE FROM FORBESHere's Why You Could Get As Little As $0.21 From Equifax's Data Breach SettlementBy Shahar Ziv The FTC believed that only a minute fraction of the 147 million Americans would care ...

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 ...

Colossal Equifax Data Breach: What 143 Million People Might Want to Do Now Equifax Shares Tank After Company Announces Breach of 143 Million Customers An independent cybersecurity firm was hired ...

"The SEC alleges that before Equifax's public disclosure of the data breach, Ying exercised all of his vested Equifax stock options and then sold the shares, reaping proceeds of nearly $1 million.

Equifax will pay up to $425 million into a victim’s compensation fund and $275 million in civil penalties to settle litigation around a 2017 data breach that affected 147 million consumers.

Even excluding the many corporate hacks that happen regularly, 145.5 million people were affected in the Equifax breach. There are about 250 million people over the age of 18 in the U.S. That ...

Finalized in January 2020, the settlement compensates U.S. consumers whose personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the credit bureau Equifax. The breach compromised an estimated 147 ...

Any data breach threatens to tarnish a company’s reputation, but it is especially mortifying for Equifax, whose entire business revolves around providing a clear financial profile of consumers ...

Symantec CEO Greg Clark Wednesday told analysts that the Equifax breach of 145.5 million Americans' personal data has resulted in a significant uptake in identity protection services including the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 ...