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...“Few companies have invested more time and resources than Equifax to ensure that consumers’ information is protected.”...
...His data from Equifax suggests that loans originated this year have a lower delinquency rate than those originated in 2021 and 2022, the flipside of stricter underwriting standards....
...Uber, Target, Equifax, British Airways and Capital One are among the businesses to have been hit with large fines over data breaches and, in some cases, poor handling and communication of the issue....
...The shares trade on a multiple of 29 times consensus earnings forecasts for 2020, an expensive valuation compared with its two main US competitors TransUnion and Equifax....
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...However, Equifax’s defences were woefully weak, as US politicians and security consultants pointed out....
...Last year, Equifax disclosed that it had suffered a massive data hack in the US, affecting 143m clients and raising concerns about the safety of customer information....
...Equifax agreed a $800m US settlement last year over the hack....
...That is about average for credit checkers Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Anyway, Intuit can afford to be generous....
...Most damning is the FTC’s finding that Equifax responded too slowly to news of a breach, only for the problem to worsen....
...“We did not choose Equifax, Equifax in fact chose us,” he said....
...This has paid off in cases such as Equifax, the consumer credit agency that revealed a breach of its systems in September 2017....
...My Post colleagues found that Facebook knew about a visit to a sperm-measurement service, log-ins to medical insurance and even the website to register for the Equifax breach settlement....
...Equifax said: “As the ICO makes clear in its report, Equifax has successfully implemented a broad range of measures to prevent the recurrence of such criminal incidents and it acknowledges the strengthened...
...Mr Bonthu’s employment with Equifax was terminated in March after he refused to co-operate with an internal investigation into the matter, the SEC said....
...Earlier this year, the US Government Accountability Office determined an expired digital certificate contributed to Equifax’s failure to stop hackers from stealing 145m customers’ personal data....
...Equifax did not immediately comment....
...There is something odd about the insider trading case against Equifax IT executive Jun Ying....
...As well as nearly half of all US citizens, Equifax said that 700,000 customers in the UK had also been affected....
...It is not on the scale of really big worldwide attacks against large corporations, such as the 2014 raid on Yahoo or the 2017 raid on Equifax, but in UK terms it is one of the more serious attacks given...
...Shares in Equifax, which have lost almost a quarter since the start of September, fell 2 per cent in after-hours trading....
...Equifax in September revealed that hackers broke into its systems, stealing financial records on as many as 146m customers....
...Shares in Equifax were down 1.8 per cent by early afternoon in New York....
...It added: “The issue involves a third-party vendor that Equifax uses to collect website performance data, and that vendor’s code running on an Equifax website was serving malicious content.”...
...Related: Equifax says nearly 700,000 UK customers may have had details stolen in hack (Oct 10)Equifax puts silence down to fear of ‘copycat’ cyber attacks (Oct 3)...
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