TransUnion LLC, a half-century-old Chicago-based credit-reporting firm, announced on Aug. 28 a data breach involving the personal information of 4.4 million consumers throughout the United States.
In a filing with the Maine attorney general’s office, TransUnion stated that it discovered the breach on July 30—two days after it happened. More than 16,00 Maine residents were affected.
According to the filing, computer hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to some personal data that were stored on a third-party application. A letter sent to those affected states that “no credit information was accessed.”
The letter says that the unauthorized access included limited personal information….