The article will explain more of the detail, but the nuts and bolts are Experian purchased a company who was reselling data and did not verify that companies dealings, leading to an undeground website having almost full access to all U.S. Social Security numbers and other information. It took the Secret Service to stop it. The article link is here, http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/experian-sold-consumer-data-to-id-theft-service/.
This was also posted earlier on a tech website Slashdot at http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/10/21/1542203/experian-sold-social-security-numbers-to-id-theft-serv... .
EX: 785 EQ: 759 TU: 760 (9/14 via MyFico)