https://consumerist.com/2017/09/21/so-the-equifax-hack-actually-started-back-in-march/ >Two weeks ago, credit agency Equifax announced an unprecedented breach of consumer personal data where records for 143 million customers in the United States alone were stolen. Equifax told the world that it discovered the breach in July, and it began in May. Turns out that the second half of that statement isn’t quite true. >The Wall Street Journal obtained a confidential memo to Equifax from the company investigating the breach, FireEye’s Mandiant group, which details when the hackers gained access to Equifax’s systems.