How many people outside the U.S. are affected by the Equifax breach?

[ Update September 15, 2017: Equifax has released more detailed information pertaining to the stolen data from people in the UK. The names, dates of birth, email addresses and telephone numbers of up to 400,000 people in the UK may have been accessed.]

If you’ve been reading news about the recent Equifax breach, you may have noticed that many articles mention briefly that people in the United Kingdom and Canada are also affected. There has been little clarification as to how many people were affected, or what exactly was lost.

The current statement from Equifax is that there was “unauthorized access to limited personal information for certain U.K. and Canadian residents.” Due to this heavy emphasis on customers in the U.S., many of us have not really considered how much or how little this could mean to people in the UK and Canada.

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