Cybersecurity
Equifax Breach a Year Later: Record Profits, Share Revival
- Investors and the public largely moved on after massive hack
- Credit-reporting firm boosts security spending by $200 million
An Equifax Inc. slide is displayed on a monitor during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25, 2017.
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Data breach? What data breach?
One year after Equifax Inc. disclosed a hack of its computers that shook the financial world, sparking an FBI review and slashing a third off the company’s share price in one week, investors and the public seem to have largely moved on.