ICO fines Equifax £500,000 for breaching the 1998 DPA, for failure to protect private information of more than 15 million UK residents.

The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has hit credit agency Equifax with a £500,000 fine for not protecting the personal data of 15 million UK customers. Last year, the company’s US ...

2. Class-action lawsuits against Equifax are heating up. The news: The Securities and Exchange Commission charged former Equifax chief information officer Jun Ying with insider trading. The ...

Equifax recently fired 24 of its own employees for holding two jobs. A handful of the employees reported having three jobs simultaneously. Equifax used its own employment-tracking product to ...

Data analytics giant Equifax has been accused by a pair of home mortgage lenders of monopolizing the market for electronic income and employment verification services, leading to higher prices.

Equifax had patch 2 months before hack and didn’t install it, security group says. Hackers took advantage of a window when the flaw was known but not fixed, which lasted two months, to penetrate ...

Equifax's reputation with consumers has fallen at a quicker pace than other companies hit by similar data breaches in recent years, according to data from YouGov BrandIndex released Monday.

A year ago this week, the credit bureau Equifax saw signs of a problem on its network. A really big problem. Hackers had entered the company’s systems, stealing the personal and financial data ...

Equifax data breach: How to protect yourself 03:21. Equifax said that Susan Mauldin, who had been the top security officer, and David Webb, the chief technology officer, are retiring.

From left, Equifax’s interim CEO, Paulino do Rego Barros Jr.; former CEO Richard Smith; and Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, testified at a Nov. 8 hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science ...

If you don’t want to settle, and you want to keep the option to take legal action against Equifax as an individual, you must opt out of the settlement by mailing a written “request for ...