And in the Harvard Business Review, Rotenberg explained that "consumer privacy is not a goal achieved by markets. government to safeguard the personal data of Americans has placed American consumers at risk from foreign adversaries. Rotenberg warned lawmakers and regulators that the failure of the U.S. EPIC President Marc Rotenberg testified before the House in 2018 and the Senate in 2017 about the Equifax breach. They allegedly conspired to hack into Equifax's computer networks, maintain unauthorized access to those computers, and steal sensitive, personally identifiable information of nearly half of all American citizens. government has indicted four members of China's military on charges of hacking Equifax to exploit the personal data of 150 million Americans.
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The data breached included names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license numbers. Equifax, one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies in the United States, announced in September 2017 that its systems had been breached and the sensitive personal data of 148 million Americans had been compromised.