It now appears that the data breach at American credit rating agency Equifax, which was reported last month and is believed to have taken place between May and July 2017, exposed the records of 15.2 million clients from the United Kingdom as well, reports Reuters. Of these about 14.5 million records, collected between 2011 and 2016, doesn't include information that might put consumers at risk, but the remaining 693,665 records contain sensitive information. Equifax will notify the affected consumers and offer them risk mitigating solutions for free to minimise chances of possible misuse of the exposed data. Last week, after the investigation into the breach had concluded, Equifax had said that the "forensic investigation related to United Kingdom consumers has been completed and the resulting information is now being analyzed in the United Kingdom. Equifax is continuing discussions with regulators in the United Kingdom regarding the scope of the company’s consumer notifications as the analysis of the completed forensic investigation is completed." Earlier this month, the company had informed that around 2.5 million additional US consumers were potentially impacted by the security breach, taking the total up to 145.5 million. Mandiant (the security firm Equifax had contracted to investigate the breach) did not identify any evidence of additional or new attacker activity or any access to new databases or tables. Instead, this additional population of consumers was confirmed during Mandiant’s completion of the remaining investigative tasks and quality assurance procedures built into the investigative process. The company also provided an update on how…
