US financial technology company Equifax said it will create 150 jobs in Dublin over the next 12 months, bringing its total Irish workforce to more than 350.

Equifax, which is based in Atlanta, opened a new IT Development Centre in Dublin last September.

It also employs 100 people at a separate facility in Wexford.

Equifax provides information that enables consumers, businesses and governments to compile and monitor credit scores.

The company's Dublin IT Development Centre develops new and advanced solutions for its global customers.

The jobs announced today will mostly be filled by software engineers, business analysts, and other IT specialists.

"Ireland today is a globally recognised tech hub, and we are building a diverse, highly-skilled team who are at the forefront of excellence in innovation," said Mark Rohrwasser, interim chief information officer at Equifax.

"It's exciting to be part of Dublin's highly-sophisticated technology market," he added.

Martin Shanahan, IDA Ireland's chief executive, said that Equifax has greatly bolstered Dublin's reputation as a tech hub within Europe by choosing to double its Irish workforce just a year after opening its Dublin IT facility.

"This expansion also demonstrates that Ireland has both the necessary business infrastructure and talent pool to continue to attract global services companies here," Mr Shanahan added.

The company is in the middle of cleaning up after a major data breach in which information on over 145 million consumers was stolen by hackers including names, social security numbers, birth dates and addresses of people across the US and Canada.

The data included social security numbers, birth dates and addresses of people across the US and Canada.