House panel to hold hearing on Equifax security breach

Published September 8, 2017 9:22pm ET



House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, announced Friday his panel will hold a hearing concerning the recent Equifax “cybersecurity incident,” which could have exposed the personal information of up to 143 million Americans.

From May to July 2017, Equifax said “criminals” violated a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files. The primary information collected includes names, Social Security numbers, birthdays, addresses, and even driver’s license numbers. Furthermore, approximately 209,000 American consumers had their credit card numbers collected and dispute documents with personal information for approximately 182,000 Americans was collected.

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