The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether top officials at Equifax Inc. violated insider trading laws when they sold stock before the company disclosed that it had been hacked, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Prosecutors are looking at the stock sales by Equifax Chief Financial Officer John Gamble; President of U.S.
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