Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-07-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Equifax
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Equifax, reveals to have been hit by a data breach that could potentially affect 143 million consumers in the United States. The breach was discovered on July 29th.