Equifax

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Equifax Inc.

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US2944291051
founding 1899
Seat Atlanta , Georgia ,United StatesUnited States
management Mark W. Begor ( CEO )
Number of employees 11,200
sales 3,507,000,000 US dollars
Branch Financial services
Website www.equifax.com
As of December 31, 2019

Equifax is a financial services company founded in 1899 and headquartered in Atlanta , Georgia . The company is mainly Experian and Trans Union , the largest credit agency of the United States of America . Subsidiary TALX Corporation provides tax and verification services to businesses.

history

The company was founded in 1899 as Retail Credit Company, Inc. In 1975 the company was renamed Equifax.

In 2001, GeoTrust took over Equifax 's SSL certification business. The Equifax Root Certificate, which would have been valid until August 22, 2018, was revoked on September 14, 2017 by the certification authority.

Data theft 2017

In early September 2017, it became known that from May to the time the data theft was discovered on July 29, 2017 , hackers had illegally accessed the data of up to 143 million customers in the US, Canada and the UK . They gained access to social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, driver's license numbers, 290,000 credit card numbers and other data.

The hack could be the biggest social security number theft to date. It took place via a security gap in application software that was created by inadequate programming and was integrated into the Group's website.

Three executives are under investigation for selling $ 1.8 million worth of company shares after the hack was discovered but before the public was informed. These three senior executives, including the chief financial officer , were not aware of the hack when the company sold their shares days after the company was informed, according to Equifax. Equifax's Chief Security Officer (CSO) Susan Mauldin resigned along with Chief Information Officer David Webb on September 15.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corporate Leadership
  2. ^ Company information
  3. ↑ Annual Report 2019
  4. ↑ www.talx.com
  5. ^ The Work Number
  6. ↑ Equifax Inc. History
  7. ↑ Separating Equifax from fiction , Wired September 1995, accessed September 11, 2017
  8. ^ Daniel AJ Sokolov: After a colossal hack at the credit agency: Schiefe Optik at Equifax , heise.de from September 9, 2017, accessed on September 11, 2017
  9. ↑ Data captured from 143 million customers of a financial service provider , zeit.de from September 8, 2017, accessed on September 11, 2017
  10. ↑ Tara Siegel Bernard, Tiffany Hsu, Nicole Perlroth and Ron Lieber: Equifax Says Cyberattack May Have Affected 143 Million in the US , nytimes.com, September 7, 2017, accessed September 11, 2017
  11. ↑ Equifax: Hackers loot data from up to 143 million US citizens. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online , September 8, 2017, accessed September 9, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Hacker Jackpot: Credit Bureau Equifax hacked. In: heise.de. Heise Online , September 8, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Consumers Struggle to Get Answers From Equifax After Massive Hack. In: bloomberg.com. Bloomberg LP , September 8, 2017, accessed September 9, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Associated Press : What you need to know about the Equifax data breach , in: Washington Post, September 9, 2017, accessed September 11, 2017
  15. ↑ Karen Turner: "Equifax faces criminal probe after executives sold off stocks before disclosing data breach" Vox news from September 18, 2017
  16. ↑ 2 top Equifax execs retire in wake of massive data breach. In: marketwatch.com. Retrieved September 17, 2017