A former Equifax executive pleaded guilty Thursday to securities fraud after federal prosecutors said he engaged in insider trading of company stock ahead of Equifax’s public announcement of a massive 2017 data breach.

Jun Ying, formerly chief information officer of Equifax U.S. Information Solutions, was terminated from Equifax a month after the company announced the data breach. Roughly 145 million consumers’ personal and financial information was exposed to hackers, the credit reporting firm has admitted.

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