Equifax under pressure to disclose full extent of data breach

The BBC is reporting that US Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding Equifax disclose details of the full extent of last year’s data breach, following a report that it was bigger than previously disclosed.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Friday that cyber-thieves had accessed US citizens’ email addresses, tax ID numbers and more driver licence information than acknowledged earlier.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren…wants a reply by the week’s end.

“As your company continues to issue incomplete, confusing, and contradictory statements and hide information from Congress and the public, it is clear that five months after the breach was publicly announced, Equifax has yet to answer this simple question in full: what was the precise extent of the breach?” the Democratic senator from Massachusetts wrote in a letter to the credit rating agency…

…A spokeswoman for Equifax said the latest disclosure from the US should not imply that additional information about UK citizens had also been stolen.

“This information does not change the number of consumers affected or any of the UK figures/statements already provided,” she said…

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