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BRIEF-Equifax says concluded forensic investigation of cybersecurity incident

Published 2017-10-02, 04:41 p/m
© Reuters.  BRIEF-Equifax says concluded forensic investigation of cybersecurity incident
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Oct 2 (Reuters) - Equifax Inc (NYSE:EFX) EFX.N

* Equifax announces cybersecurity firm has concluded forensic investigation of cybersecurity incident

* Equifax Inc - potentially impacted U.S. consumers increased by 2.5 million

* Equifax Inc - completed review determined that approximately 2.5 million additional U.S. consumers were potentially impacted, for a total of 145.5 million

* Equifax Inc - completed review also has concluded that there is no evidence attackers accessed databases located outside of United States

* Equifax Inc - "Mandiant did not identify any evidence of additional or new attacker activity or any access to new databases or tables"

* Equifax Inc - forensic investigation related to UK consumers has been completed and resulting information is now being analyzed in United Kingdom

* Equifax - continuing talks with regulators in UK regarding scope of its consumer notifications as analysis of completed forensic investigation is completed

* Equifax inc - it also was determined that some of consumers with affected credit cards announced in company's initial statement are Canadian

* Equifax - completed review determined that personal information of approximately 8,000 canadian consumers was impacted from data breach

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