Equifax on Thursday expanded for the second time its estimate of the number of consumers impacted by its 2017 massive data breach.

The Atlanta-based credit bureau announced that it has now confirmed the identities of an additional 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and partial driver’s license information were stolen by hackers who penetrated Equifax’s firewalls sometime last year.

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