Cybersecurity

U.K. Regulator Probes Equifax After Cyber Theft of Personal Data

  • Regulator can stop the company’s U.K. credit reference service
  • British lawmaker had asked whether the FCA would investigate

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Equifax Inc.’s regulator problem is getting worse.

The credit reference provider, already reeling from American probes into the loss of data on 145.5 million customers in a computer hack, will face an investigation in the U.K., where 694,000 consumers had information stolen.