Hackers stole the driver’s license information of more than 10 million Americans from Equifax, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
That’s in addition to the Social Security numbers and other personal details about 145.5 million Americans hackers took from Equifax’s systems. The company said the stolen data included driver’s license information, but didn’t say for how many people. What’s more, Equifax said Tuesday that 15.2 million records on more than nearly 700,000 UK consumers were also compromised.
Information from driver’s licenses include home addresses and driver’s heights and weights, not to mention the driver’s license numbers. These pieces of information would make a potential identity thief’s job even easier. The richly detailed consumer records were stolen between May and the end of July this year by hackers who cracked into Equifax’s systems by taking advantage of an unpatched software bug, the company said.
Equifax didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the number of US driver’s license records or UK consumer records the hackers stole.
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