徵信巨頭Equifax數據庫被黑 上億美國人隱私受威脅

About 143 million US customers of credit report giant Equifax may have had information compromised in a cyber security breach, the company has disclosed.

據Equifax公司日前披露，該信用巨頭的1.43億客戶可能已經在網絡安全漏洞中泄露了個人信息。

Equifax said criminals accessed data such as Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses during the incident. Some UK and Canadian customers were also affected.

Equifax方面表示，罪犯在此次事件中獲取了諸如社保號碼、出生日期和地址等在內的信息。一些英國和加拿大客戶也受到了影響。

The firm's core consumer and commercial credit databases were not accessed.

不過該公司的核心客戶和商業信用數據庫沒有被入侵。

The company said it would work with regulators in the US, UK and Canada on next steps. It is also offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection for a year.

該公司表示，它們將和美國、英國以及加拿大的監管者合作進行下一步的工作，還會免費提供一年的信用監管和盜賊識別保護。

The breach is one of the largest ever reported in the US.

這是美國報告過的規模最大的泄露案件中的一起。

"I apologise to consumers and our business customers for the concern and frustration this causes," Equifax chief executive Richard Smith said.

Equifax首席執行官理查德·史密斯說道：“我向因爲這些事件而憂慮並且受挫的消費者和企業用戶道歉。”