Equifax’s U.K. Arm Fined Over Data Breach

Equifax’s ([EFX](https://ift.tt/rU1W9wZ) U.K. arm was fined around $13.6 million Friday for failing to protect the data of millions of British customers in a [2017 hack of the credit-reporting company](https://ift.tt/3iCfr6Z). The British arm outsourced customer-data processing to the U.S., and then failed to manage or monitor data security, the Financial Conduct Authority said. Hackers accessed sensitive details of about 148 million people in the U.S. and 13.8 million in the U.K. The data breach, one of the largest ever, included names, birth dates and credit-card details.