Equifax, the attack of the consumer data giant, has exposed almost half the profile of the American population, saying that millions of users can be affected more than originally thought.
Equifax announced on Monday that the cybersecurity company Mandiant completed the forensic part of the hacking investigation.
The company said in its release that 145.5 million consumers are now probably affected by the data gap, 2.5 million more than previously estimated.
In September, Equifax reported massive data corruption, saying that hackers could have visited personal data, including names and Social Security numbers, more than 143 million consumers from mid-may through July. Equifax, who learned of the irregularities at the end of July, said that about 209,000 numbers of people's credit cards and other 182,000 of individual files were also accessed.
Revelations were quickly criticized for delaying public alert to hackers and site problems, Equifax people to review their risk details.
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating hacking attacks and is committed to investigating both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Since hacking, some Equifax officers have left the company. Last Tuesday, Richard. Smith resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of the Board. Before this, the company announced that the head of the information consumer data company David? Wilbur and his head of security, Susan. Moulding also retires. Weber will replace Mark Rohrwasser, who joined the company last year, Equifax said in an email statement. The Ayers will replace molding. Both Rohrwasser and Ayers have worked in the IT department of Equifax.
Equifax officials were also informed of having been investigated by the DOJ for selling shares after the company disclosed a release of data from millions of personal information from the Americans.
According to Bloomberg, the department is the CFO of Equifax, John Gambling sales. The President of the United States Information solution, Joseph Loughn; Rudolph Ploder, chairman of the workforce solution, after the company learned from the defect, three executives pulled about $2 million in stock, the SEC presentations show. An e-mail statement from the credit supervision agency said the officials were "unprepared" from the irregularities.
The archives show that after the sale, all executives still have thousands of shares of the company.
Equifax's shares fell 1.7% percent after the closing day. The price of the stock plummeted about 24.5% percent as news of piracy broke through Monday's closing.
Source : https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equifax-says-2-5-million-205755192.html
