September 20, 2017
Equifax Gets Sued By The State Of Massachusetts

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has filed a lawsuit against Equifax, accusing the company of not doing enough to protect consumers against the massive breach that exposed the personal data...

September 20, 2017
NY AG Wants To Know About TransUnion, Experian Cybersecurity

TransUnion and Experian, two of The Big Three credit reporting companies, have received letters from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman inquring them about their cybersecurity safeguards in the wake...

September 19, 2017
DOJ Opens Investigation Into Stock Sales By Equifax Executives

Embattled Equifax was dealt another blow in the wake of its data breach as the U.S. Justice Department has decided to open a criminal investigation into the matter. According to...

September 19, 2017
Equifax Leak Prompts New York To Call For Credit Report...

In the wake of the massive Equifax leak, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to require all credit reporting agencies to register with the state. According to news...

September 19, 2017
Equifax Admits To A Different Security “Incident” In March

So, about that data breach at Equifax — it turns out this isn’t quite their first rodeo when it comes to serious cybersecurity situations. In fact, as of yesterday, Equifax...

September 18, 2017
Equifax Lets Go Of Two Execs; Wealthy Victims Could Be...

In the wake of the massive data breach at Equifax, the embattled credit scoring company announced that the Chief Information Officer, David Webb, and the chief security officer, Susan Mauldin,...

September 18, 2017
Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

Some of the most memorable television commercials of the 1970s and 1980s were those promoting E. F. Hutton’s brokerage services. When its tagline, “When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen,”...

September 18, 2017
Ant Financial Resubmits To CFIUS For MoneyGram Buy Approval

Ant Financial, the Chinese payment unit of Alibaba, is gearing up to resubmit to the U.S. its application to purchase MoneyGram International. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on...

September 18, 2017
Jumio CEO On Finding The Anchor Point For Digital IDV

What to do in the wake of the Equifax data breach: Run? Hide? Freeze credit? That’s just on the consumer side, and none of them are delightful choices. What about for financial...