Slashdot: Equifax Says Almost 400,000 Britons Hit In Data Breach

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Equifax Says Almost 400,000 Britons Hit In Data Breach
Published on September 15, 2017 at 04:40PM
MalachiK shares a report from the BBC: Data about British people “may potentially have been accessed” during the data breach at the U.S. credit rating firm Equifax. The UK arm of the organization said files containing information on “fewer than 400,000” UK consumers was accessed in the breach. In a statement, the UK office of Equifax said an internal investigation had shown that data on UK consumers was accessed during the hack. It said data on Britons was being held in the U.S. due to a “process failure” which meant that a limited amount of information was stored in North America between 2011 and 2016. The information held included names, dates of birth, email addresses and telephone numbers. No addresses, passwords or financial data was involved.

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