An Equifax software engineer has settled an insider trading charge with the SEC. He allegedly earned more than $75,000 after he made a securities transaction based on his suspicion that the credit bureau had suffered a data breach. The SEC has called on all publicly traded companies to tighten their insider trading rules. Equifax’s breach stands as one of the largest and most sensitive ones on record. Attackers stole personal information pertaining nearly 147 million U.S. individuals, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some cases, driver’s license numbers.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/equifax-coder-settles-insider-trading-charges-sec-a-11146