Equifax Inc.’s years-long failure to prioritize cybersecurity left the company vulnerable to a data breach that exposed more than 145 million Americans’ personal information, a Senate subcommittee said in a bipartisan staff report.
The report comes amid a series of high-profile data breaches involving Equifax and other companies that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will probe in a March 7 hearing. Equifax CEO Mark Begor is scheduled to testify.
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