Equifax Inc will pay Indiana $19.5 million to resolve claims it failed to protect residents whose personal information was exposed in a data breach that affected 147 million people, the state’s attorney general said on Monday.
The credit-reporting company has also agreed to settle similar claims by Massachusetts, the only other state that had chosen to proceed with a lawsuit against Equifax when it announced $700 million in federal, state and class action settlements in July.
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