Equifax's pretty basic fail means the data of 400,000 Britons are at risk
We already knew that Americans weren't the only ones to be rightly concerned about the Equifax hack, but the latest statement from the company's UK branch is quite something.
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Equifax Ltd has confirmed to Mashable that a file containing personal data of "fewer than 400,000 UK consumers" was stolen in the 7 September breach.
That happened because of a "process failure" — or an epic fail as we normal humans say — which saw UK data being stored in the U.S. for a good 5 years, between 2011 and 2016. It was only corrected last year.
The information included the customers' name, date of birth, email address, and a telephone number, according to Equifax, which added that the data "does not include any residential address information, password information or financial data." Read more...
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