Equifax (English Wikipedia)
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abajournal.com (Global: 8,743rd place; English: 4,517th place)
- Weiss, Debra Cassens (February 11, 2014). "Woman sues in effort to prove she is alive". ABA Journal. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
abc.net.au (Global: 120th place; English: 70th place)
- Levingston, Rebecca (October 16, 2022). "Have you heard of 'Equifax'?". ABC Brisbane. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
ajc.com (Global: 956th place; English: 481st place)
- Continuing Coverage: Data Privacy. "Report: Equifax to pay $700 million in breach settlement". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Associated Press. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
{{cite news}}:|author=has generic name (help) - "Equifax weighs appealing $18.6M award to consumer". Ajc.com. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
apnews.com (Global: 101st place; English: 62nd place)
- "Man with 1st name 'God' settles with credit rating agency". AP News. May 29, 2015. Archived from the original on October 30, 2023. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
arstechnica.co.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Goodin, Dan. "Equifax rival TransUnion also sends site visitors to malicious pages". Ars Technica UK. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
arstechnica.com (Global: 473rd place; English: 338th place)
- Goodin, Dan (October 12, 2017). "Equifax website hacked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update". Ars Technica. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
- David, Kravets (October 13, 2017). "After second bungle, IRS suspends Equifax's "taxpayer identity" contract". Ars Technica. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
bbc.co.uk (Global: 11th place; English: 10th place)
- "Equifax suffers fresh data breach". BBC News. September 13, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
bizjournals.com (Global: 396th place; English: 190th place)
- "GeoTrust acquires Equifax's digital certificate business". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
- Saunders, Jessica (October 17, 2018). "Former Equifax manager sentenced to 8 months home confinement for insider trading". The Atlanta Business Chronicle.
bloomberg.com (Global: 118th place; English: 85th place)
- "Equifax CIO Put '2 and 2 Together' Then Sold Stock, SEC Says". July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Riley, Michael, Anita Sharpe, and Jordan Robertson, "Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed", Bloomberg News, September 18/19, 2017.
boingboing.net (Global: 4,539th place; English: 2,785th place)
- "Equifax will give your salary history to anyone with your SSN and date of birth / Boing Boing". boingboing.net. October 10, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
books.google.com (Global: 3rd place; English: 3rd place)
- Anderson, Raymond (August 30, 2007). The Credit Scoring Toolkit: Theory and Practice for Retail Credit Risk Management and Decision Automation. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-922640-5.
- Gupta, Rohit (December 6, 2018). Reward and Donation Crowdfunding: A Complete Guide for Emerging Startups. Notion Press. ISBN 978-1-68466-089-6.
cbsnews.com (Global: 136th place; English: 93rd place)
- "Want that $125 from Equifax? Don't ignore the company's latest email". www.cbsnews.com. September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- "That $125 payment from Equifax? You shouldn't count on it". www.cbsnews.com. July 31, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- "Equifax sued over erroneous credit scores sent for "millions" of Americans". www.cbsnews.com. August 4, 2022. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
- "Data from Equifax credit hack could "end up on the black market," expert warns". CBS News. February 11, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
cnbc.com (Global: 303rd place; English: 191st place)
- Leonhardt, Megan (December 19, 2019). "If you made a claim for $125 from Equifax, you're not getting it after court awards nearly $80 million to attorneys". CNBC. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
- Haselton, Todd (September 7, 2017). "Credit reporting firm Equifax says cybersecurity incident could potentially affect 143 million US consumers". cnbc.com. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
cnet.com (Global: 447th place; English: 345th place)
- "Equifax reportedly used 'admin' as password in Argentina". Cnet.com. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
cnn.com (Global: 36th place; English: 26th place)
- Alexandra Peers (August 3, 2022). "Equifax issued wrong credit scores for millions". CNN. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
consumeraffairs.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Equifax to Pay $250,000 to Settle Charges". ConsumerAffairs.com. July 30, 2003. Archived from the original on August 17, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
drive.google.com (Global: 900th place; English: 800th place)
- "Jenkins v. Equifax - Complaint.pdf". Google Docs. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
economist.com (Global: 331st place; English: 272nd place)
- "How to protect yourself against the theft of your identity". The Economist. September 14, 2017. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
encyclopedia.com (Global: 457th place; English: 342nd place)
- "Equifax Inc | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
equifax.co.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Company Profile". equifax.co.uk. Equifax. Archived from the original on December 25, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
equifax.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "All Products and Solutions | Business | Equifax". Equifax.com. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
- Equifax. "All Credit Score, Credit Report & Identity Theft Products | Equifax". Equifax.com. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
fastcompany.com (Global: 1,399th place; English: 772nd place)
- "The Dizzying Number Of CFPB Complaints Against Equifax Since 2012 Should Infuriate You". Fast Company. September 18, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
- "Equifax's app has disappeared from Apple's App Store and Google Play". Fastcompany.com. September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- "Here's Why Equifax Yanked Its Apps From Apple And Google Last Week". Fast Company. September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
fca.org.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Financial watchdog fines Equifax Ltd £11 million for role in one of the largest cyber security breaches in history". Financial Conduct Authority. October 12, 2023. Archived from the original on October 22, 2023. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
finance.yahoo.com (Global: 894th place; English: 567th place)
- "Equifax, Inc. (EFX) Income Statement - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.
- "Equifax is losing appeals". Yahoo Finance. March 9, 2018.
ftc.gov (Global: 4,627th place; English: 2,648th place)
ftc.gov
- "Equifax to Pay $575 Million as Part of Settlement with FTC, CFPB, and States Related to 2017 Data Breach". Federal Trade Commission. July 19, 2019. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- "Equifax Data Breach Settlement". Federal Trade Commission. July 11, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
This article incorporates public domain material from this U.S government document. - "Equifax Data Breach Settlement". Federal Trade Commission. July 11, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
consumer.ftc.gov
- FTC (2020). "A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act" (PDF). FTC. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 21, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
georgiaencyclopedia.org (Global: 3,711th place; English: 2,175th place)
- "Equifax". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
ghostarchive.org (Global: 64th place; English: 28th place)
- Goot, Murray (May 15, 2019). "Who controls opinion polling in Australia, what else we need to know about the polls, and why it matters". Inside Story. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
go.com (Global: 97th place; English: 79th place)
abcnews.go.com
- "Jury Awards $18.6M For Equifax Credit Report Mix-up". ABC News. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
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govinfo.gov (Global: 1,755th place; English: 831st place)
- "- AN EXAMINATION OF THE EQUIFAX CYBERSECURITY BREACH". www.govinfo.gov. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
housingwire.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Nunes, Flávia Furlan (May 31, 2024). "Lenders file class-action lawsuit against Equifax, citing monopoly in work number product". HousingWire. Archived from the original on May 31, 2024. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
ibsintelligence.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Equifax acquires Ansonia expanding leadership in commercial credit data solutions". IBSIntelligence. July 27, 2020. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
insidestory.org.au (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Goot, Murray (May 15, 2019). "Who controls opinion polling in Australia, what else we need to know about the polls, and why it matters". Inside Story. Archived from the original on February 11, 2022. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
jacobin.com (Global: 5,265th place; English: 3,048th place)
- Bunker, Rachel (September 18, 2017). "The Equifax Way". Jacobin. Archived from the original on May 15, 2025. Retrieved August 19, 2023.
justice.gov (Global: 884th place; English: 477th place)
- "Former Equifax employee sentenced for insider trading". www.justice.gov. June 27, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
krebsonsecurity.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Brian Krebs (May 9, 2018). "Think You've Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again". KrebsonSecurity. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- "Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History — Krebs on Security". krebsonsecurity.com. October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
latimes.com (Global: 32nd place; English: 21st place)
- Puzzanghera, Jim; Raab, Lauren (October 12, 2017). "Equifax website is apparently hacked". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
mashable.com (Global: 1,051st place; English: 654th place)
- Schroeder, Stan. "Equifax may have been hacked again and it's not even funny anymore". Mashable. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
nbc10.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- Equifax Fined $250,000 Fine By FTC Archived October 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, NBC 10, August 3, 2003, retrieved September 13, 2007
nbcnews.com (Global: 156th place; English: 101st place)
- "Equifax just discovered 2.4M more account breaches". NBC News. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
- White, Martha C. (April 11, 2014). "God Just Wants Some Credit, So He's Suing Equifax". NBC News. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
newson6.com (Global: low place; English: 7,368th place)
- "Oklahomans File Lawsuit Against Equifax", NewsOn6, November 4, 2017
nist.gov (Global: 708th place; English: 742nd place)
nvd.nist.gov
- "NVD - CVE-2017-5638". nvd.nist.gov.
nsbanking.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Equifax to acquire Brazilian credit bureau Boa Vista Serviços for $596m". NS Banking. February 10, 2023. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
nypost.com (Global: 376th place; English: 247th place)
- "Equifax agrees to pay $700M after massive data breach". New York Post. Associated Press. July 20, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
nytimes.com (Global: 7th place; English: 7th place)
- "The New Equifax Boss Wants to Make Amends. We Have Some Questions". The New York Times. April 5, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
- Cowley, Stacy; Eavis, Peter (July 19, 2019). "Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650 Million Settlement for Data Breach". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Warzel, Charlie (September 16, 2019). "Opinion | Equifax Doesn't Want You to Get Your $125. Here's What You Can Do". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- Ann Carrns (September 14, 2018). "Freezing Credit Will Now Be Free. Here's Why You Should Go for It". The New York Times. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
- Benner, Katie (February 10, 2020). "U.S. Charges Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hacking". The New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- "An $18 Million Lesson in Handling Credit Report Errors". The New York Times. August 2, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
- Bernard, Tara Siegel (January 22, 2020). "Equifax Breach Affected 147 Million, but Most Sit Out Settlement". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
odwyerpr.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Equifax Picks DLA Piper", Kevin McCauley, O'Dwyer's, October 23, 2017
oregonlive.com (Global: 906th place; English: 452nd place)
- "Equifax must pay $18.6 million after failing to fix Oregon woman's credit report". The Oregonian. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - "Judge cuts Oregon woman's award in Equifax case". Oregonlive.com. January 30, 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
pcmag.com (Global: 1,442nd place; English: 915th place)
- Humphries, Matthew. "Equifax Website Hacked Again". PCMAG. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
politico.com (Global: 243rd place; English: 130th place)
- Wilhelm, Colin (June 28, 2018). "Former Equifax manager charged with insider trading linked to cyber breach". Politico.
The SEC says Bonthu bought options before the company's data breach became public and sold them for a profit of more than $75,000
postandcourier.com (Global: 2,890th place; English: 1,383rd place)
- Kearney, Brendan (October 4, 2011). "Equifax buys local eThority: Company to stay, grow in Charleston, founder says". The Post and Courier. Archived from the original on October 8, 2013.
reuters.com (Global: 38th place; English: 30th place)
- Scarcella, Mike (May 29, 2024). "Equifax hit with antitrust class action over work verification services". Reuters. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
sec.gov (Global: 617th place; English: 437th place)
- "Equifax Inc. 2024 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". SEC.gov. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 20, 2025.
- SEC Archives (December 31, 2001). "ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2001". SEC. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- "DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENTS RELATING TO MERGER OR ACQUISITION". www.sec.gov. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
- "Former Equifax Manager Charged With Insider Trading". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. June 28, 2018.
In a complaint filed in federal court in Atlanta today, the SEC charged that Equifax software engineering manager Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu traded on confidential information he received while creating a website for consumers impacted by a data breach.
securityweek.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Former Equifax Executive Gets 4 Months for Insider Trading | SecurityWeek.Com". www.securityweek.com.
- "Ex-Equifax Manager Gets Home Confinement for Insider Trading | SecurityWeek.Com". www.securityweek.com.
- Kovacs, Eduard. "Malicious Redirects on Equifax, TransUnion Sites Caused by Third-Party Script | SecurityWeek.Com". www.securityweek.com. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
stltoday.com (Global: 1,782nd place; English: 834th place)
- Patrick, Robert (February 8, 2014). "'Excuse me, I'm not dead' St. Louis County woman pleads to her bank". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
synopsys.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Equifax, Apache Struts, and CVE-2017-5638 vulnerability | Synopsys". Software Integrity Blog. September 16, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
themortgagereports.com (Global: low place; English: low place)
- "Equifax breach just another page in the sordid history of credit bureaus". Mortgage Rates, Mortgage News and Strategy : The Mortgage Reports. September 18, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
theverge.com (Global: 208th place; English: 158th place)
- Statt, Nick (July 25, 2019). "Equifax owes you a lot more, but here's how to get $125 from this week's settlement". The Verge. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
venturebeat.com (Global: 831st place; English: 553rd place)
- "The end of the cloud is coming", VentureBeat, Victor Charypar, November 4, 2017
vice.com (Global: 247th place; English: 175th place)
- "Breaking: Equifax Knew of Security Flaws Months Before It Was Hacked". Motherboard. October 26, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)
- "Company Profile". equifax.co.uk. Equifax. Archived from the original on December 25, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
- Garfinkel, Simson (September 1, 1995). "Separating Equifax from Fiction". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on September 1, 2022. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
- Bunker, Rachel (September 18, 2017). "The Equifax Way". Jacobin. Archived from the original on May 15, 2025. Retrieved August 19, 2023.
- FTC (2020). "A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act" (PDF). FTC. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 21, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- Kearney, Brendan (October 4, 2011). "Equifax buys local eThority: Company to stay, grow in Charleston, founder says". The Post and Courier. Archived from the original on October 8, 2013.
- "Equifax acquires Ansonia expanding leadership in commercial credit data solutions". IBSIntelligence. July 27, 2020. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- Equifax Fined $250,000 Fine By FTC Archived October 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, NBC 10, August 3, 2003, retrieved September 13, 2007
- "Equifax to Pay $250,000 to Settle Charges". ConsumerAffairs.com. July 30, 2003. Archived from the original on August 17, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
- "Man with 1st name 'God' settles with credit rating agency". AP News. May 29, 2015. Archived from the original on October 30, 2023. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
- "Financial watchdog fines Equifax Ltd £11 million for role in one of the largest cyber security breaches in history". Financial Conduct Authority. October 12, 2023. Archived from the original on October 22, 2023. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
- Nunes, Flávia Furlan (May 31, 2024). "Lenders file class-action lawsuit against Equifax, citing monopoly in work number product". HousingWire. Archived from the original on May 31, 2024. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
- Scarcella, Mike (May 29, 2024). "Equifax hit with antitrust class action over work verification services". Reuters. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
wired.com (Global: 254th place; English: 178th place)
- Garfinkel, Simson (September 1, 1995). "Separating Equifax from Fiction". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on September 1, 2022. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
- WIRED Magazine referenced a March 1970 edition of The New York Times, which included an article by Columbia University Professor Alan Westin. No specific date or article is referenced. Simson Garfinkel, Separating Equifax from Fiction, September 1995.
- Simson Garfinkel, Separating Equifax from Fiction, WIRED Magazine, September 1995.
worldcat.org (Global: 4th place; English: 4th place)
search.worldcat.org
- Garfinkel, Simson (September 1, 1995). "Separating Equifax from Fiction". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on September 1, 2022. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
- Cowley, Stacy; Eavis, Peter (July 19, 2019). "Equifax Is Said to Be Near $650 Million Settlement for Data Breach". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
- Warzel, Charlie (September 16, 2019). "Opinion | Equifax Doesn't Want You to Get Your $125. Here's What You Can Do". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- Andriotis, Andrew Ackerman and AnnaMaria (August 2, 2022). "WSJ News Exclusive | Equifax Sent Lenders Inaccurate Credit Scores on Millions of Consumers". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
- Puzzanghera, Jim; Raab, Lauren (October 12, 2017). "Equifax website is apparently hacked". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
- Bernard, Tara Siegel (January 22, 2020). "Equifax Breach Affected 147 Million, but Most Sit Out Settlement". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
wsj.com (Global: 94th place; English: 66th place)
wsj.com
- Andriotis, Andrew Ackerman and AnnaMaria (August 2, 2022). "WSJ News Exclusive | Equifax Sent Lenders Inaccurate Credit Scores on Millions of Consumers". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
blogs.wsj.com
- Gershman, Jacob (February 10, 2014). "Woman Listed as Deceased Files Lawsuit Claiming She's Alive". Wall Street Journal Law Blog. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
youtube.com (Global: 13th place; English: 14th place)
- Equifax (September 7, 2017), Rick Smith, Chairman and CEO of Equifax, on Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Data., retrieved September 12, 2017