U.S. SEC charges 3 people with insider trading tied to Equifax hack

Credit cards, a chain and an open padlock is seen in front of displayed Equifax logo in this illustration taken September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illutration

(Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it had charged https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2022/lr25470.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery three individuals for illegally tipping and trading in the securities of Equifax Inc before the company announced it had experienced a massive data breach.

Equifax, a provider of consumer credit scores, revealed https://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-cyber-idUSKCN1BI2VK in September 2017 that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July of that year, making it one of the largest data breaches in the United States.