Senate Commerce Hack Hearing to Include Ex-Yahoo CEO Mayer, Verizon's Zacharia, Equifax Acting Chief

The Senate Commerce Committee plans a hearing Wednesday on data breaches, it said. Witnesses are Paulino Barros, Equifax interim CEO; Marissa Mayer, former Yahoo CEO; Karen Zacharia, Verizon chief privacy officer; and Todd Wilkinson, Entrust Datacard Corp. president. The panel will "hear from those in charge, at the time major breaches occurred and during the subsequent response efforts, at two large companies who lost personal consumer data to nefarious actors,” said Chairman John Thune, R-S.D. It starts about 10 a.m. in 106 Dirksen, with the time based on when an earlier committee executive session there ends (see 1711020045). The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (S-1693) will be marked up at that earlier meeting, which begins at 9:45 a.m.