devoted solely to the $3 billion California stem cell agency. The report is published by David Jensen, who worked for 22 years for The Sacramento Bee in a variety of editing positions, including executive business editor and special projects editor. He was the primary editor on the 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "The Monkey Wars" by Deborah Blum, which dealt with opposition to research on primates. Jensen served as a press aide in the 1974 campaign and first administration of Gov. Jerry Brown. (Time served: two years and one week.) He writes from his sailboat on the west coast of Mexico with occasional visits to land. Jensen began writing about the stem cell agency in 2005, noting that it is an unprecedented effort that uniquely combines big science, bigup to 143 million US consumers – more than a third of the country's population.

According to Equifax, the breach occurred around mid-May through July of this year, exploiting a website application vulnerability.

While primarily a US-based cyber attack, Equifax also said "limited personal information" was accessed pertaining to some UK residents, with more details to come regarding users affected outside the US.

The company says it became aware of the breach on July 29, and acted to stop the leak and conduct a forensic review for law enforcement.

Among the data stolen was customers' names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver's license numbers.

Equifax says approximately 209,000 US users also had their credit card information comprised, and about 182,000 had dispute documents accessed. Equifax is mailing notices to those