EQUIFAX DATA BREACH

Big organization like Equifax has faced the challenges of data-breach. The centralized way of saving data has always been vulnerable to data theft.

The credit reporting bureau admitted that a far more extensive assortment of data was “accessed” by hackers last year than previously acknowledged — but insisted not all of that info on 145.5 million Americans was actually stolen, according to a Jan. 2 letter it sent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

The company’s list of “accessed” data, obtained by The Post, includes:

-passport numbers
-Social Security numbers
 -first, last, and middle names and suffixes
-gender
-home addresses and phone numbers
-driver’s license numbers, including the date the license was issued and the state issuing them
 -date of birth
-credit card numbers, their expiration date and “CV2” security numbers
 -tax ID numbers
-email addresses

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