Equifax

Equifax Inc. is one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies, along with Experian and TransUnion. Equifax collects and aggregates information on over 800 million individual consumers and more than 88 million businesses worldwide.

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Bill Would Give FTC Authority To Police, Fine Credit Bureaus
Bill Would Give FTC Authority To Police, Fine Credit Bureaus
January 11, 2018  |  Regulation

Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner are introducing new legislation that would allow the U.S. government to levy fines on companies that are the...

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Why Collection Notices Are 2018’s Tipoff To Digital ID Fraud
Why Collection Notices Are 2018’s Tipoff To Digital ID Fraud
January 04, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

In the annals of fraud — payments fraud and identity theft and all manner of bad doings — 2017 may be a year we’d all...

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Consumers Want Biometrics – How Will Payments Respond?
Consumers Want Biometrics – How Will Payments Respond?
January 02, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

With the holiday shopping season behind us, most shoppers can probably say with confidence that the worst part of the whole experience was trying to...

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The 17 Most Important Stories Of 2017
The 17 Most Important Stories Of 2017
January 01, 2018  |  News

Happy New Year! Ready to hit the gym? Gonna learn to speak Mandarin this year? Have a book club to form? Those are all perfectly...

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Picking Up The Bill On Consumer Trust, Post-Data Breaches
Picking Up The Bill On Consumer Trust, Post-Data Breaches
December 05, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

The public may learn of data breaches much more promptly if three senators get their way on a proposed Senate bill, the Data Security and...

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Account Takeover: An Evolution In eCommerce Fraud
Account Takeover: An Evolution In eCommerce Fraud
November 21, 2017  |  Fraud Prevention

  Place a stone in a stream and the water will flow on around it, diverted from its path but not from its destination. Unfortunately,...

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Equifax Says Bye-Bye To Bonuses And Buybacks
Equifax Says Bye-Bye To Bonuses And Buybacks
November 13, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Equifax, home of the hack that compromised over 145 million Americans’ data, is just saying no to executive bonuses this year — and scrapping buybacks....

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Equifax’s Big Earnings Miss And Warnings That More Attacks May Be Coming
Equifax’s Big Earnings Miss And Warnings That More Attacks May Be Coming
November 10, 2017  |  Earnings

Given that Equifax is the firm behind what was arguably the most comprehensive and damaging breach in U.S. history — a breach that left the...

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Equifax’s Chief Legal Officer Investigated Over Post-Breach Shares
Equifax’s Chief Legal Officer Investigated Over Post-Breach Shares
November 07, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

A special committee at Equifax is now investigating its chief legal officer and his role in approving share sales made by four executives days after...

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