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Wisconsin Privacy Enforcement Cases

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Equifax

Date
2019-07-26
Amount
up to $425 million; no Wisconsin share stated
Legal basis
No statutes or laws cited

Why the action was brought

The document states that Equifax’s September 2017 data breach exposed information belonging to roughly 147 million consumers. It does not identify the specific data exposed or state a particular failure or legal violation. It describes resulting consumer concerns about identity protection and potential reimbursement for related time and expenses.

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This register contains approved, official-source privacy, data-breach and data-security enforcement records. Read any case-specific court-approval qualification; inclusion does not confirm payment or final judgment. Shared multistate amounts should not be summed as unique state penalties.

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Original case-library snapshot: August 23, 2026. Original state-law research cutoff: August 25, 2026. Monetary-library update: September 16, 2026, not a new full 50-state research cutoff. Targeted Indiana and New Hampshire law review: October 19, 2026 only. Source inclusion does not independently confirm final court entry or payment.