Cybersecurity
Equifax Amassed Salary Details for People at 7,100 Companies
- The database is unique in the industry, key to firm’s growth
- Employers say they’ll keep working with unit untouched by hack
Equifax’s March Breach Adds to Mounting Crisis at Company
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Here’s some information that Equifax Inc. is managing to hold onto: payroll data from 7,100 companies.
Inside the U.S. credit-reporting firm is a warehouse of corporate secrets like none other -- a database tracking the careers and earnings of bankers, technology workers and other personnel across the country. Even after Equifax failed to prevent hackers from tapping a separate trove of information on 143 million Americans, employers probably won’t stop feeding it updates, because they rely so much on analytics that Equifax provides.