Mealey's (September 11, 2017, 1:07 PM EDT) -- NEWARK, N.J. — With the Sept. 10 filing of a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, at least 20 federal putative class actions have been filed against Equifax Inc. following the credit-reporting firm’s Sept. 7 announcement of a data breach compromising the personally identifiable information (PII) of potentially 143 million of its U.S. customers (Maura Dowgin, et al. v. Equifax Inc., No. 2:17-cv-06923, D. N.J.)....