Companies That Tout Their Data Security: The poster child for this category is Equifax. The company's 10-Ks for 2015 and 2016 described the credit monitoring service as "delivering security" and touted Equifax's development of "new technology to enhance the. .. security of the services we offer." As 145.5 million Americans have found out, that's not quite how it worked out. Once news about the Equifax breach broke, it wasn't long before Kuhns v. Equifax Inc. was filed, with the plaintiff's complaint pointing to those statements, among others, as "false and/or misleading" in light of the company's actual, undisclosed vulnerabilities.