NEW YORK -- Equifax, one of the three main credit reporting companies, said this week that a major data breach exposed Social Security numbers and other important information of millions of people.

ATLANTA – A former manager at Equifax was sentenced to 8 months of home confinement, fined $50,000 and ordered to pay nearly $76,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to insider trading. Sudhakar ...

After the year Equifax has had, you’d think the Atlanta-based credit-reporting agency would have mastered its messaging by now, but a stunning admission offered recently by a top executive illustrates ...

If you have already submitted a claim in the Equifax data breach settlement, you are far from alone. More than 15 million claims had been received by Dec. 1, according to court documents. Haven’t ...

Equifax said it has hired a new chief information security officer to help with the company’s overhaul of its security in the wake of its massive breach last year. More victims were struck by identity ...