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Equifax. Equifax Workforce Solutions, formerly known as TALX (pronounced "talks"), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Equifax. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is based in St. Louis, Missouri. [ 4] The company was originally founded in 1972 under the name Interface Technology Inc. The company maintains a database named "The Work Number" that holds and maintains ...
The Work Number. The Work Number is an American employment verification database created in 1985 by Talx Corporation. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Talx, (now Equifax Workforce Solutions) was acquired by Equifax Inc. in February 2007 for US$ 1.4 billion. [ 4]
The Equifax data breach occurred between May and July 2017 at the American credit bureau Equifax. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft.
In 2017, consumer credit rating giant Equifax suffered one of the country's largest data breaches, exposing the personal information of 147 million U.S. citizens, or roughly 40% of the population ...
Equifax was the subject of more than 57,000 consumer complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from October 2012 to September 17, 2017, with most complaints relating to incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or misattributed information held by the company. [20] In September 2017, Equifax announced a cyber-security breach, which it ...
Professional services revenue was $182 million in the quarter, leading to total revenue in Q2 of $2.085 billion, also a growth of 17%. U.S. revenue in Q2 totaled $1.56 billion, up 16%.
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based ...
Experian is a multinational data analytics and consumer credit reporting company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Experian collects and aggregates information on over 1 billion people and businesses including 235 million individual U.S. consumers and more than 25 million U.S. businesses. [ 5][ 6] It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and ...