If you run background checks which include employment verifications, you are most likely aware that most employers these days use automated systems for employment verifications. One of the biggest of these systems is The Work Number, which is owned by Equifax.
According to a Washington Post article from March, a Google employee learned that the information was being shared with Equifax, and then posted the concern on an internal forum. The employee was concerned because Equifax had been hacked in 2017, and the hackers stole information on millions of people. Thankfully, the data system on which ASE accesses information was not part of the system that was hacked as Equifax keeps the Work Number data completely separate from the other data they maintain.
