BOSTON–Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has become the first to file a lawsuit against credit reporting firm Equifax over a breach that exposed the personal data of as many as 143 million people, including three-million in Massachusetts.
"Equifax knew about the vulnerabilities in its system for months, but utterly failed to keep the personal information of nearly three million Massachusetts residents safe from hackers," said Healey in a statement. "Equifax needs to pay for its mistakes, make our residents whole, and fix the problem so it never happens again.”
The lawsuit seeks civil penalties, disgorgement of profits, restitution, costs, and attorneys' fees.