Following last year’s massive data breach, credit reporting company Equifax Inc. has agreed to take a set of corrective actions negotiated by the state Department of Financial Services.

The actions are part of a consent order announced Wednesday between Equifax and banking regulators from New York and seven other states. The agreement comes in the wake of a breach that compromised the data of 143 million people in the United States including eight million New Yorkers.

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