Estimated reading time: 0 minutes, 26 seconds

Ex-Equifax Exec Gets Prison for Insider Trading Related to Data Breach

A former executive at Equifax, which admitted a huge data breach in 2017, is headed to prison. So reports CNET.

Jun Ying, former chief information officer at the consumer credit reporting agency, has been sentenced to four months in federal prison for insider trading, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Ying sold nearly $1 million in Equifax stock after the company discovered the breach, which affected more than half the U.S. population, but before the company revealed its data was compromised.

Read the full article from CNET.

Read 2595 times
Rate this item
(0 votes)

Visit other PMG Sites:

PMG360 is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal data we collect from our subscribers/agents/customers/exhibitors and sponsors. On May 25th, the European's GDPR policy will be enforced. Nothing is changing about your current settings or how your information is processed, however, we have made a few changes. We have updated our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect, how and why we collect it.