Equifax Hit With Maximum UK Privacy Fine After Mega-Breach

The Information Commissioner's Office, which is the U.K.'s data protection authority and enforces the country's privacy laws, announced the 500,000 ($660,000) fine on Thursday. Following an investigation into the breach - carried out in parallel with the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority - the ICO cited Equifax "for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million U.K. citizens during a cyberattack in 2017."An investigation carried out by the ICO found that Equifax violated more than half of the...