https://consumerist.com/2017/09/07/equifax-announces-data-breach-affecting-143-million-customers/

Credit reporting agencies have access to basically all of our most sensitive financial information, and we pretty much all have our records collected and collated by them whether we want to or not. So that makes it a particularly big problem when one of the big three credit agencies in the country has to announce a data breach affecting all its customers, because that basically means all of us… and this one is bad.

Equifax announced today that it discovered “unauthorized access” to their systems — i.e. a data breach — on July 29.