One of the three major U.S. consumer credit bureaus has been breached, leaving the data of more than 4.4 million people exposed to hackers. TransUnion, which maintains credit information on 200 million consumers in the United States and shares that information with 65,000 other organizations, has just disclosed a breach that occurred last month amid the larger Salesforce data theft.

What happened at TransUnion?

According to a data breach notice submitted to the Maine attorney general, a "cyber incident involving a third-party application" occurred at TransUnion on July 28, allowing threat actors unauthorized access to some U.S. consumers' personal information. The letter being distributed to those affected states that credit reports and "core credit information" were not included in the

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