New story in Business from Time: Hackers Accessed 143 Million Americans’ Social Security Numbers in Equifax Breach
(ATLANTA) — Credit monitoring company Equifax says a breach exposed social security numbers and other data from about 143 million Americans. The Atlanta-based company said Thursday that “criminals” exploited a U.S. website application to access files between mid-May and July of this year. It said consumers’ names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in …