Feb 12, 2020 · In 2017, personally identifying data of hundreds of millions of people was stolen from credit reporting agency Equifax. Here's a timeline of what happened, how it happened, …

Dec 8, 2024 · Learn about the 2017 Equifax data breach that exposed 147 million Americans. Discover attack methods, settlement details, and security lessons learned.

Between May and July 2017, American credit bureau Equifax was breached. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian …

In 2017, one of the largest CRAs, Equifax Inc. (“Equifax”) announced that it had suffered a data breach that involved the PII of over 145 million Americans. The Subcommittee investigated the …

Aug 30, 2018 · This report (1) summarizes the events regarding the breach and the steps taken by Equifax to assess, respond to, and recover from the incident and (2) describes actions by …

ATLANTA, Sept. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) today announced a cybersecurity incident potentially impacting approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. …

Equifax, one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States, announced in September 2017 that its systems had been breached and the sensitive personal …

Dec 18, 2024 · In September 2017, the Equifax data breach rocked the financial world, exposing sensitive information of over 147 million individuals, including names, Social Security numbers, …

The Equifax breach didn't happen overnight; it was a slow-burning disaster: a series of missed opportunities and security lapses that culminated in a massive data leak.

Jul 21, 2025 · Despite a patch being released on March 6, 2017, Equifax failed to apply it, leaving its systems exposed. From mid-May to July 29, 2017, cybercriminals exploited the unpatched …