A monitor displays Equifax Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News)

A week after Equifax disclosed it suffered a massive data breach that may have compromised sensitive information belonging to 143 million people, the credit reporting agency’s chief information officer, David Webb, and chief security officer, Susan Mauldin, are retiring, effective immediately, the company said in a statement Friday evening.

The sudden departures come as Equifax has been the target of intense criticism over the lapses in security that led to the hack and the way the company has handled the aftermath.

Richard F. Smith, Equifax’s chief executive, apologized for the breach in an op-ed published by USA Today earlier this week. “This is the most humbling moment in our 118-year history,” he said. But his promises to make changes at the company were not enough for many alarmed lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

At least two congressional hearings on the Equifax breach have been announced. The first scheduled panel will take place on Oct. 3, when Smith is expected to testify. A bipartisan group of 36 senators have asked the Justice Department and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate reports Equifax executives sold stock after learning about the breach but before it was made public. The Federal Trade Commission took the unusual step of announcing it is conducting a probe into the Equifax breach.

A major frustration for consumers who’ve sought to protect themselves from the Equifax data breach has been having to pay for freezing and unfreezing their credit, as a precaution against fraud. On Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and a dozen other Democrats introduced a bill that would ban credit reporting bureaus such as Equifax, Experian and TransUnion from charging consumers for the service.

Equifax said in its statement the company would offer free security freezes through Nov. 21.

But that is unlikely to satisfy the demands of some elected officials.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday the company’s chief executive and board of directors should step down unless they take five steps to correct their mishandling: notify affected consumers; provide free credit monitoring to them for at least 10 years, offer to freeze their credit for up to 10 years; remove forced arbitration clauses from their terms of use; and comply with fines or new standards that come out of investigations.

“It’s only right that the CEO and board step down if they can’t reach this modicum of corporate decency by next week,” he said.

A Florida police officer, who gained social media fame for a ”hot cop” photo showing him and fellow officers preparing for Hurricane Irma, is accused of making anti-Semitic remarks and joking online about Hitler and Jews.

Gainesville police said they are investigating a complaint against Officer Michael Hamill days after a selfie of him and the two other officers went viral, prompting a swarm of comments from admirers — some of which the department said “actually made our chief blush.” Local media has since reported that images from Hamill’s Facebook page reveal controversial comments from 2011 and 2013.

“Several citizens have brought information to our attention regarding a complaint against Officer Hamill,” Gainesville police spokesman Ben Tobias said in a statement to The Washington Post without providing details about the nature of the complaint.

“GPD is reviewing the allegation and will do so in accordance to Florida law and department policy. Under Florida Law, complaint information is confidential until an investigation is concluded.”

[‘I feel faint … send help!’ Gainesville ‘hot cops’ steam up Facebook after Irma.]

According to the Gainesville Sun:

One screen shot is of an April 2013 post in which Hamill writes: “Who knew that reading Jewish jokes before I go to bed would not only make me feel better about myself but also help me to sleep better as well. Here is one for everybody, ‘What’s the difference between Boy Scouts and Jews?’ Anybody know? Well it is because ‘Boy Scouts come back from their camps.’

One person replied to that Facebook post, calling it “messed up.” Hamill replied, “u don’t like it? don’t read it then.”

In another screen shot from a 2011 post, Hamill writes: “So I find it funny that people will talk about how our government needs to do something about our economy and in reality it’s YOU who needs to stop taking advantage of our system and get a life and do something with your life. Gotta love reality when it hits you in the face. Stupid people annoy me. Put them in an oven and deal with them the Hitler way. Ha-ha.”

Hamill, along with officers John Nordman and Dan Rengering, captured attention after their selfie was posted along with others last weekend on the police department’s Facebook page, showing the response to the storm.

As The Washington Post’s Samantha Schmidt reported, the picture evoked responses such as ”I feel faint … send help!”

“I feel safer just looking at this picture,” one person commented.

“I can’t believe how many women are objectifying these poor, fine, young, strong, handsome, brave, sexy, delicious, virile, ovulation-inducing, mouthwatering, beefy. … I can’t remember where I was going with this,” another said.

The photo also brought competing shots — from officers in Sarasota, and from three female officers in Grand Ledge, Mich.

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Gainesville police initially responded in kind (though the statement has since been removed):

1. We are dying with the comments. You’ve actually made our chief blush with some of them.
2. MRS. Nordman and MRS. Hamill have also enjoyed knowing how millions of women are going crazy over their husbands.
3. We can confirm that Officer Rengering (far right with the amazing hair) IS SINGLE.
4. On another note, Officer Rengering is being placed into Cougar Prey Protective Care, similar to the witness protection program for his safety.
5. Please do not call 9-1-1 and request this group respond to your “incident.”
6. There WILL be a calendar.

“I’ve never had this much attention before,” Hamill, who said he has been with the Gainesville Police Department for about a year, told Time earlier this week. ”It’s an ego boost — very flattering and funny.”

The 28-year-old said that at first, his wife, whom he married in March, was not happy about the attention.

“But she’s taking it like a champ,” Hamill told the magazine.

After the news of the investigation into the complaint against Hamill, Gainesville police confirmed that the department has also deleted the image, which had garnered tens of thousands of comments.

“With the complaint and investigation ongoing it was the right thing to do,” Tobias, the Gainesville police spokesman, said in an email to The Post.

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