Equifax Inc. is a consumer credit reporting agency. Equifax collects and aggregates information on over 800 million individual consumers and more than 88 million businesses worldwide.
Equifax Inc. is a consumer credit reporting agency. Equifax collects and aggregates information on over 800 million individual consumers and more than 88 million businesses worldwide.
Equifax on Sept. 7 announced the cybersecurity incident, one of the largest in history. Unauthorized data access occurred from mid-May through July 2017. The breach was discovered on July 29.
Personal information would be spread throughout, the misuse of that information would occur. Credit will be exploited without the consumer's knowledge, regardless of their use of Equifax. Release of personal data can lead chaos in our society. Plummetting credit will disable the ability to buy expensive items on monthly payment and might lead to corruption of our economy, creating a world without order.
A total of 147 million consumers of their personal information from driver's license information, birth dates, and social security numbers.
You are able to use the Equifax website to check whether you were affected by the data breach.
Consumers affected of the data breach are able to freeze credit, receive fraud alerts, monitor credit records, and identify theft protection. As an apology the affected are able to receive either up to $125 as compensation if they signed up for a credit monitoring service.