NEW YORK -- Equifax, one of the three main credit reporting companies, said this week that a major data breach exposed Social Security numbers and other important information of millions of people.

Equifax has announced that their massive data breach in 2017 exposed the personal information of 147 million people. Now, the company has agreed to a $700 million settlement. Under the terms of the ...

House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday grilled Equifax's former chief executive over the massive data hack of the personal information of 145 million Americans, calling the company's response ...

ATLANTA – A former manager at Equifax was sentenced to 8 months of home confinement, fined $50,000 and ordered to pay nearly $76,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to insider trading. Sudhakar ...

The former chairman and CEO of Equifax says the company was entrusted with personal information of 140 million Americans and "we let them down" as human error and ...

Data breaches are becoming so common that Americans tend to ignore them. Yahoo alone has suffered data breaches exposing at least 1 billion accounts over the past few years – a staggering number given ...

After the year Equifax has had, you’d think the Atlanta-based credit-reporting agency would have mastered its messaging by now, but a stunning admission offered recently by a top executive illustrates ...

After a cyberattack that potentially exposed the personal information of 143 million people, the credit reporting agency Equifax set up www.equifaxsecurity2017.com, a website to help people determine ...