https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/26/equifax-ceo-richard-smith-has-retired-following-huge-data-breach/ >Just over a week after Equifax’s chief security officer and chief information officer “retired,” the bungling company’s CEO has made the same move after a huge data breach impacted over 140 million customers. >The company announced that Richard Smith has left his role as CEO and chairman of the board effective immediately following a huge security breach which is thought to have impacted as many as 142 million consumers. Those affected had Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s license numbers compromised, while credit card information for hundreds of thousands more customers is said to have been put at risk.