Given that 143 million Americans were reportedly affected, odds are good that you or at least someone you know was impacted by the data breach of the credit reporting agency Equifax, which was reported several weeks after the company learned about it.
Is this indeed the worst data breach in the history of data breaches? And what should you be doing now to protect yourself from the worst impacts of the breach? Joe Laferrera, head of the data security and privacy practice at Boston’s Gesmer Updegrove, discusses with Lawyers Weekly reporter Kris Olson.
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