The Wall Street Journal | By: AnnaMaria Andriotis & Emily Glazer | October 10, 2017:
Company also said file containing 15.2 million U.K. consumer records also affected.
Driver’s license data for around 10.9 million Americans were compromised during the breach of Equifax Inc.’s systems, according to people familiar with the matter.
The license information was accessed by hackers who also took vital personal information, including Social Security numbers, of potentially 145.5 million Americans. Not all those people would have had license information in Equifax’s system.
Separately, Equifax said Tuesday that a file containing 15.2 million U.K. consumer records was attacked during the company’s hack.
Equifax announced the breach, which also affected consumers in Canada, on Sept. 7. At that time, the company said that “in some instances” U.S. driver’s license numbers were accessed, but didn’t publicly say how many.
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