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Credit report company Equifax said Monday that an additional 2.5 million Americans may have been affected by the massive security breach of its systems, bringing the total to 145.5 million people who had their personal information accessed or stolen.
Equifax said the company it hired to investigate the breach, Mandiant, has concluded its investigation and plans to release the results "promptly." The company also said it would update its own notification for people who want to check if they were among those affected by Oct. 8.
The information stolen earlier this year included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses — the kind of information that could put people at significant risk for identity theft.
While Equifax previously said up to 100,000 Canadian citizens may have been affected, it said Monday that the completed review did not bear that out and it determined that the information of only about 8,000 Canadian consumers was involved.
Also at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune and others.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Monday October 09 2017, @07:01PM
They reported mine as not hacked, but... that just means my name wasn't in the database it was checking. Who knows how complete that database is/was. There were also a lot of reports of inconsistent results when they first put the site up. I am not taking its results very seriously. Even if they didn't think my data was stolen, maybe it was, and they just didn't find the evidence of it, and I'll hear about how they figured it out in 2020.