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UK watchdog fines Equifax for role in cyber breach
Ends long-running investigation.
Oct 16 2023 6:56AM
ACCC investigates Australian data broker practices
Examines benefits and harms.
Jul 10 2023 11:48AM
Equifax appoints new A/NZ CTO
As Peter Tyrell heads to the US.
Jan 31 2023 11:39AM
US SEC charges three with insider trading tied to Equifax hack
Data breach pump-and-dump alleged.
Aug 17 2022 12:35PM
Allianz Australia loses its CISO
Moves to credit reporting agency Equifax.
Sep 1 2020 7:05AM
US charges four Chinese military hackers in 2017 Equifax breach
"A deliberate and sweeping intrusion."
Feb 11 2020 6:59AM
Equifax's $996m data breach settlement spurs calls for new rules
"It's a parking ticket, not a penalty."
Jul 23 2019 2:24PM
Equifax nears US$700m data breach deal - report
US regulators ready to settle over 143m leaked records..
Jul 21 2019 5:35PM
British lawmakers launch investigation into bank IT failures
Official probe into outages.
Nov 26 2018 6:46AM
Fired Equifax code engineer charged with insider trading
Worked on cyber attack response.
Jun 29 2018 6:33AM
Equifax provides more detail on cyber security incident
Copies of passports, driver's licenses also stolen.
May 8 2018 11:47AM
Former Equifax CIO charged with insider trading
Linked to 2017 data breach.
Mar 15 2018 6:40AM
Equifax breach could be most costly in history
Only small portion covered by insurance.
Mar 5 2018 11:52AM
Equifax discovers another 2.4 million users hit by data breach
List continues to grow.
Mar 2 2018 6:31AM
Equifax hires Home Depot's CISO
As firm reveals more data was stolen.
Feb 13 2018 11:23AM
Equifax takes down web page after new compromise
Redirected to fake Adobe Flash update.
Oct 13 2017 6:28AM
Equifax was alerted to security vulnerability in March
Former chief executive admits failures to Congress.
Oct 3 2017 6:55AM
Equifax CEO follows top IT execs out the door
Latest casualty after massive data breach.
Sep 27 2017 1:17AM
Equifax's top tech execs leave 'effective immediately'
CIO and CSO gone.
Sep 18 2017 6:49AM
Equifax admits Apache Struts flaw behind megahack
Vulnerability exploited in the wild since March.
Sep 14 2017 12:40PM
