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Equifax demanded to disclose details on data hack

(MENAFN) Equifax has been overwhelmed with orders to release a complete file of the data violation which took place in 2017.

Hackers have breached American's personal information, including tax ID numbers, email address, along with driver license data of a quantity greater than previously disclosed.

The company has been ordered by US Senator Elizabeth Warren to disclose a list by the end of the week, detailing further data hackers are assumed to have accessed.

The agency has receive a letter from the Senator, saying "as your company continues to issue incomplete, confusing, and contradictory statements and hide information from Congress and the public, it is clear that five months after the breach was publicly announced, Equifax has yet to answer this simple question in full: what was the precise extent of the breach?"

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