Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed suit against Equifax on Tuesday, alleging that the credit reporting company ignored obvious cybersecurity vulnerabilities for months before hackers accessed the personal information of as many as 140 million people.
Healey, a Democrat, said Equifax “utterly failed to keep the personal information of nearly three million Massachusetts residents safe from hackers” and waited too long to disclose the hack.
“We are suing because Equifax needs to pay for its mistakes, make our residents whole, and fix the problem so it never happens again,” Healey said.
The lawsuit was filed in Boston’s Suffolk County Superior Court and alleges that Equifax violated several state consumer protection and data security laws.
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