Equifax accused of 34 control and process failures in official report into 2017 data breach

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Equifax accusing of failing to implement "adequate security" by US Congressional committee

Equifax, the credit rating agency at the centre of one of the world's biggest data breaches, has been accused of failing to implement "adequate security" to protect its data in the official US gove...

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