http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2017/11/08/equifax-says-it-owns-all-its-data-about-you/

Members of the Senate Commerce Committee challenged Equifax's chief executive Wednesday about the credit reporting agency's sweeping data collection and its one-sided relationship with millions of Americans whose personal information it harvests for profit.

Equifax revealed in September that attackers may have compromised the sensitive information of as many as 145 million people. But for many Americans — and for Senators at Wednesday's hearing  — it was unclear why Equifax was storing information about them in the first place.