U.S. SEC charges 3 people with insider trading related to Equifax hack
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Aug 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it had charged https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2022/lr25470.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery three individuals for illegally tipping and trading in the securities of Equifax Inc before the company announced it had experienced a massive data breach.
Equifax, a provider of consumer credit scores, in September 2017 revealed https://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-cyber-idUSKCN1BI2VK that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July that year, making it one of the largest data breaches in the United States. (Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
