The farce continues: Equifax now says 694,000 Brits hit
In a scene which would not be out of place in a Chuckle Brothers TV show, bungling Equifax bosses have…
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Bent copper gets five years for car crash data theft
A corrupt police officer, who made an estimated £363,000 by selling details of car crash victims to claims management firms…
Equifax chief ‘misled Congress over mass data breach’
Former Equifax chief executive Richard Smith has been accused of misleading lawmakers and the American public by attempting to place…
Yikes, Yahoo admits 3 billion accounts were hit in 2013
It is not often that a company which has suffered a hugely embarrassing data breach can expect to feel a…
Equifax: Oops we’ve found another 2.5m stolen records
Just when Equifax thought it had put the worst behind it following last month’s catastrophic data breach, a forensic investigation has…
Comparethemarket probed as sector faces data scrutiny
The Competition & Markets Authority has sent out a warning to price comparison sites they must be far more transparent…
Equifax CEO is ‘retired’ as company reels from breach
Equifax chairman and chief executive Richard Smith has paid the ultimate price for the company’s bungled handling of the major…
Flaw on Equifax system was exposed over 6 months ago
As UK consumers face a wall of silence about whether their information has been compromised in last week’s data breach…
44m Brits could be affected by Equifax US data breach
The fall-out over the Equifax US data breach has triggered an investigation by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office amid new…
Equifax rocked as mega hack exposes 143m consumers
Equifax has admitted that UK consumers have been affected by a massive hack attack on its US systems, which has…