Last month, US credit score agency Equifax admitted the personal data for just under 400,000 UK accounts was slurped by hackers raiding its database. On Tuesday this week, it upped that number ever-so-slightly to 15.2 million. Last week they upped the number of affected US citizens to 145.5 million, and that a probe into the UK side of things was still ongoing.
— source theregister.co.uk 2017-10-12