Equifax’ chief information officer and chief security officer are both retiring «effective immediately.»
SAN FRANCISCO — Equifax announced Friday afternoon its chief information officer, Susan Maudlin, and chief security officer, David Webb are retiring «effective immediately.»
The company’s interim chief information office will be Mark Rohrwasser, Equifax said. Its interim chief security officer will be Russ Ayres.
Prior to his new position, Rohrwasser led Equifax’s International IT operations. Ayres was vice president of the IT organization.
«The personnel changes are effective immediately,» the company said in a statement.
Maudlin was chief security officer at the company from 2013 until Friday. By Friday afternoon her name had disappeared from the company’s website and her LinkedIn page only showed her first name and the initial of her last name, with her place of work listed as «private.» However the body of her LinkedIn page still listed her time at Equifax, from August 2013 to the present.
David Webb’s name and bio were still up on Equifax’ site Friday afternoon.
Equifax, one of the nation’s three largest credit-reporting firms, disclosed last week that private information for an estimated 143 million U. S. consumers may have been compromised by hackers who carried out a cyberattack on Equifax’ network.
In addition, credit card numbers for approximately 209,000 U. S. consumers, and dispute documents with personal identifying information for approximately 182,000 U. S. consumers, were accessed.
The breach happened because Equifax security staff failed to promptly install a security fix to a flaw found in a web application tool used by many major corporations, experts said.
Hackers took advantage of that window, which lasted at least two months, to penetrate the company’s digital defenses. That allowed them to gain access to the personal data of up to 143 million people.
Equifax faces at least 23 proposed class-action lawsuits over the breach.
