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EQUIFAX INC.

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

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Filed

Sep 7, 2017

To disclose

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Affected

2,982,421state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for EQUIFAX INC. →12 incidents on file

Equifax, Inc. reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2017-09-07. 2,982,421 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Sep 7, 2017

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 35d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGSep 7 · first
Washington State AGSep 7 · first
New Hampshire State AGSep 7 · first
Oregon State AGSep 7 · first
Massachusetts State AGSep 7 · first · this page
South Carolina State AG+5d
New Hampshire State AG+35d

Pattern: first filing Sep 7 (CA), last Oct 12 (NH) — a 35-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.