Ex-Equifax Executive Charged With Insider Trading Tied to ’17 Breach<br />Jun Ying, the former chief information officer of Equifax’s core United States consumer reporting division, exercised all of his vested stock options and sold nearly $1 million in shares a little more than a week before Equifax announced<br />that hackers had broken into its systems, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.<br />He texted one of his employees: “We may be the one breached … Starting to put 2 and 2 together.”<br />Three days later, a Monday, Mr. Ying exercised all of his vested options to buy Equifax shares, and then sold them immediately<br />Four senior executives, including the consumer credit reporting agency’s chief financial officer, sold shares worth $1.8 million in the days after the company began investigating the breach<br />and more than a month before the public was told of it.
