Equifax agrees to a settlement of up to $700 million for massive data breach

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Equifax a couple of years ago had to disclose a massive hack that affected some 147 million people. Hackers were able to extract from Equifax’s servers plenty of personal data, including names and birth dates, addresses, social security numbers, and some 209,000 payment card numbers and expiration dates. Since then, the FTC sued the company, and Equifax has now agreed to a settlement amounting to as much as $700 million.

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Equifax agrees to a settlement of up to $700 million for massive data breach originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 19:39:31 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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