About 143 million US customers of credit report giant Equifax may have had information compromised in a cyber security breach, the company has disclosed.
据Equifax公司日前披露，该信用巨头的1.43亿客户可能已经在网络安全漏洞中泄露了个人信息。
Equifax said criminals accessed data such as Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses during the incident. Some UK and Canadian customers were also affected.
Equifax方面表示，罪犯在此次事件中获取了诸如社保号码、出生日期和地址等在内的信息。一些英国和加拿大客户也受到了影响。
The firm's core consumer and commercial credit databases were not accessed.
不过该公司的核心客户和商业信用数据库没有被入侵。

The company said it would work with regulators in the US, UK and Canada on next steps. It is also offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection for a year.
该公司表示，它们将和美国、英国以及加拿大的监管者合作进行下一步的工作，还会免费提供一年的信用监管和盗贼识别保护。
The breach is one of the largest ever reported in the US.
这是美国报告过的规模最大的泄露案件中的一起。
"I apologise to consumers and our business customers for the concern and frustration this causes," Equifax chief executive Richard Smith said.
Equifax首席执行官理查德·史密斯说道：“我向因为这些事件而忧虑并且受挫的消费者和企业用户道歉。”