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Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, is reportedly seeking details from Experian about what caused the credit rating firm's recent data breach affecting potentially 15 million T-Mobile customers.

Associated Press reported that Brown also wants Experian to explain how it's changing its systems to prevent a recurrence and that is provide "credit freezes" for customers potentially affected by this breach, at no charge.

Experian North America announced Oct. 1 that, based on available information, one of its business unit servers containing data from client T-Mobile was hit by a data security breach from Sept. 1, 2013, to Sept. 16, 2015. The data includes personal information from as many as 15 million consumers in the U.S. Data affected included names, dates of birth, addresses, Social Security numbers and other forms of identification. It said the data did not include payment card and banking data.

NAFCU continues to push for a strong data security standard for retailers akin to what credit unions already follow under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.