More Equifax Data Breach Details

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As reported by NBC News, Equifax revepassports and driver's licenses were compromised along with the Social Security numbers of nearly all 146 million affected consumers.

The disclosure, made in a filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to congressional committees investigating the breach, represents the first precise accounting of what hackers stole from Equifax, one of the nation's biggest credit reporting agencies. It said none of the data represented newly discovered compromised information.

More than 200,000 credit card numbers and expiration dates were also collected, it said, as well as government-issued identification documents — like driver's licenses, taxpayer ID cards, passports and military IDs — that about 182,000 consumers uploaded when they disputed credit reports with Equifax.

Read the NBC story online.

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