Most of us can quote the number of American Equifax customers impacted by its megabreach: 146 million.
However, the company gave a new and specific breakdown this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about which types of data were stolen and in what quantity.
Equifax breach by the numbers
The exact number of compromised records in the Equifax breach, by category.
- Total Equifax customer records breached: 146.6 million
- 146.6 million date of birth records stolen in Equifax breach
- 145.5 million Social Security numbers stolen from Equifax
- 99 million addresses stolen in Equifax breach
- 27.3 million Equifax customers had their gender info breached
- 20.3 million Equifax customers had phone numbers taken
- 17.6 million driver license numbers were taken in Equifax breach
- 1.8 million email addresses compromised in Equifax breach
- 209,000 customers lost credit card number and expiration date
- 97,500 Tax ID numbers were taken in Equifax breach
- 27,000 records taken in Equifax breach reported the state for the driver license number
Equifax breach - total numbers (chart)
And here is the chart Equifax gave to the SEC, with a breakdown you can see for yourself. Click to enlarge.
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