website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files” from mid-May through July of this year, Equifax said. ( Mike Stewart / The Associated Press file photo )Equifax Inc. has yet to disclose how many Canadians were affected by a massive cyberattack on about 143 million of the credit reporting agency’s customers. Hackers targeted names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s licence numbers, Equifax said in a statement. According to Bloomberg, three Equifax executives, including the chief financial officer John Gamble, sold shares a few days before the hack was announced. Equifax organizes, assimilates and analyzes data on more than 820 million consumers and more than 91 million businesses worldwide, according to a Sept. 5 press release.

Source: thestar September 07, 2017 23:04 UTC