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2017 Equifax UK — 13.8M records, 694K substantive

2017 13.8M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Names, DOB, addresses, emails, driving licenses, partial cards

Technical writeup

UK data on US servers. 13.8M UK records; 694K with substantive exposure. 14.5M names/DOB only. 15K had partial cards, passwords. FCA fined £11.16M in 2023.

Root cause

Apache Struts; US parent breach; UK data outsourced

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