Credit agency Equifax will pay up to $700 million in fines as part of a settlement with federal authorities over a data breach in 2017. The Federal Trade Commission said in a statement Monday that ...

Three Equifax execs sold off around $1.8 million of their company's stock in the days after the company had discovered a ...

Equifax agreed to pay up to $700 million to resolve U.S. federal and state investigations into the 2017 hack that compromised some of the most sensitive information of more than 140 million people.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc will pay up to $700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a massive 2017 data breach and to repay harmed consumers, in a landmark ...

Equifax said Thursday that an additional 2.4 million Americans were impacted by last year's data breach, however these newly disclosed consumers had significantly less personal information stolen. The ...

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 ...

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.

NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) - Equifax Inc said it expects costs related to its massive 2017 data breach to surge by $275 million this year, suggesting the incident at the credit reporting bureau could ...

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 ...

Banks and retailers have real money at stake when a data breach allows criminals to get at customers’ credit card data. Under federal law and credit card policies, customers have zero liability for ...

Data security breaches compromise the integrity of digital infrastructure and sensitive information, often resulting in significant financial liabilities and operational disruptions for corporations ...