Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday demanded answers from Equifax about its major data breach, including pressing for more details about three Equifax executives who sold shares after the breach was discovered, the New York Times reported today. The stock sales have added to the consumer backlash over the breach, which may have compromised the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information of 143 million Americans. Three senior executives, including the company’s chief financial officer, John W. Gamble Jr., sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the breach was discovered, but before it was disclosed. The shares were not part of a sale planned in advance. The letter — from the committee’s leaders, Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) — asked for a timeline of the breach. It pushed for specifics on when the three executives, which also included Rodolfo O. Ploder and Joseph M. Loughran III, were notified of the problem.
