Two years before Equifax Inc. stunned the world with the announcement it had been hacked, the credit-reporting company believed it was the victim of another theft...
In the previously undisclosed incident, security officials feared that former employees had removed thousands of pages of proprietary information before leaving and heading to jobs in China. Materials included code for planned new products, human-resources files and manuals...
According to the people familiar with the probe, the investigators, by
talking to Equifax employees and examining email accounts and LinkedIn
messages sent to them, saw indications that recruiters purporting to
represent Ant affiliate Alibaba had offered to triple salaries for
certain ethnically Chinese Equifax employees—and provided instructions
on specific Equifax information they should bring along if they jumped
ship. more
