Equifax tries to turn the page by replacing CEO

New York

WHEN the board of Equifax convened last week to discuss the company's response to an enormous data breach, the 10 outside directors concluded that it was time for their hard-driving chief executive to step down.

There was a problem, though. The roster of possible replacements had been depleted by the fallout from the cyberattack, which had compromised the personal information of much of the adult population of the United States.