Equifax names new tech chief after government scrutiny of huge hack

Equifax Inc., the credit-reporting firm that landed in congressional sights after a data breach that exposed personal data for nearly half the country, has has named a new technology chief who will oversee information security.

Bryson Koehler will join Equifax after serving as the chief technology officer of IBM’s Watson and Cloud Computing Platform. He is the second C-suite executive to join Equifax in the last several months; Mark Begor, a former executive at Warbug Pincus, took over for interim Chief Executive Officer Paulino do Rego Barros in March.