It's not great that a lone engineer was able to pull data from 106 million people. But this was far from Equifax 2.0.

As developers take on more responsibility to make money, sometimes security is lost in the mix.

The breach affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada.

Researchers analyzed roughly 60 underground markets for payment-card data. All of them sold Indian card data.

The two men also allegedly stole millions of dollars through online auction fraud.

New York-based threat intelligence company Gemini Advisory says it appears that a card-information dump in January points to a more aggressive level of hacking beyond point-of-sale attacks.