Cybersecurity
Experian Says Still Waiting for Explanation From Equifax
- Lack of transparency causing Experian difficulties, firm says
- Data breach at Equifax may have affected 143 million people
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Equifax Inc.’s lack of transparency about its massive data breach makes it difficult for the credit-rating firm’s competitors to check the security of their own information, according to Experian Plc.
“We don’t have a conclusive statement from Equifax,” Alex Lintner, Experian’s president of consumer information services, said Tuesday in an interview. “We’re trying to get one about what happened, so we can double-, triple-, quadruple-check whatever equivalent we have.”