A close reading of Equifax’s statement about its data breach.
Just a little data breach affecting 143 million U.S. consumersweerapatkiatdumrong/Thinkstock On July 29 the credit reporting agency Equifax discovered that someone had accessed enormous amounts of the information that it held. This Thursday—more than a month later—Equifax released a statement announcing the breach and the company’s planned response. As is so often the case…