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How to get your Equifax money and stay safe doing it

July 30, 2019 admin awareness, credit monitoring, data breach, data breach settlement, Equifax, EU, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, fraud, fraud prevention, FTC, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Identity Theft, phishing, scams, settlement, Social Security numbers

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Equifax has been ordered to pay at least $650 million in relation to its enormous 2017 data breach. Users who were affected might be eligible for a claim. But watch out for scams!

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Tags: credit monitoring data breach data breach settlement Equifax EU European Union Federal Trade Commission fraud fraud prevention FTC gdpr General Data Protection Regulation identity theft phishing scams settlement social security numbers

Independent Krebs

Credit Freezes are Free: Let the Ice Age Begin

September 21, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, annualcreditreport.com, ChexSystems, credit freeze, credit lock, credit monitoring, CreditKarma, Equifax, Experian, Innovis, NCTUE, optoutprescreen.com, security freeze, Security Tools, TransUnion

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:31:43 +0000

It is now free in every U.S. state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity thieves and others from looking at private details in your consumer credit history. If you’ve been holding out because you’re not particularly worried about ID theft, here’s another reason to reconsider: The credit bureaus profit from selling copies of your file to others, so freezing your file also lets you deny these dinosaurs a valuable revenue stream.

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Please don’t buy this: identity theft protection services

November 28, 2017 admin credit card, credit monitoring, cybercrime, Equifax, Experian, fraud, Identity Theft, IdentityForce, IdentityWorks, Lifelock, please don't buy this, privacy

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:31:58 +0000

Identity theft protection services promise to have your back against cybercriminals looking to steal your data. But they don’t actually stop them from taking your identity. Are they worth it, then? We say no.

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Tags: credit card credit monitoring Equifax Experian fraud identity theft IdentityForce IdentityWorks Lifelock please don’t buy this

Independent Krebs

Equifax or Equiphish?

September 24, 2017 admin credit lock, credit monitoring, Equifax, equiphish, Experian, Other, Trans Union, trustedid.com, trustedidpremier.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 12:53:16 +0000

More than a week after it said most people would be eligible to enroll in a free year of its TrustedID identity theft monitoring service, big three consumer credit bureau Equifax has begun sending out email notifications to people who were able to take the company up on its offer. But in yet another security stumble, the company appears to be training recipients to fall for phishing scams.

Independent Krebs

Breach at Equifax May Impact 143M Americans

September 9, 2017 admin credit monitoring, Equifax breach, Other, security freeze

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 22:30:50 +0000

Equifax, one of the “big-three” U.S. credit bureaus, said today that a data breach at the company may have affected 143 million Americans, jeopardizing consumer Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver’s license numbers.