Robert Selander was named an independent director of the embattled credit bureau, which is still trying to regain public confidence after a huge data breach last year.
Banks and retailers are sparring over whether financial firms should follow a new national standard to quickly notify consumers when they've experienced a data breach.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is among several agencies that "continue to investigate events related to" last year's Equifax brief, the credit reporting firm said in a securities filing.
Equifax, the credit bureau breached by hackers last year, said the card-payments industry may cut off its access to certain data or impose fines if the company can't prove it's addressed weaknesses.
Equifax, the credit-reporting firm that suffered a massive data breach last year, said it will notify an additional 2.4 million U.S. consumers that they were affected by the hack.
