Data Breach At Credit Services Company Equifax Affects 143 Million Customers

Equifax revealed a huge data breach on Thursday ... personal identifying information. It said the breach did not appear to impact its core consumer or commercial credit reporting databases. Read More

Why Equifax Breach of 143 Million Consumers Should Freak You Out

The company said it has not discovered any incidences of unauthorized activity from its core consumer or commercial ... Colossal Equifax Data Breach: What 143 Million People Might Want to ... Read More

Equifax Breach

The Massachusetts attorney general filed the nation's first state-initiated lawsuit Tuesday against Equifax for the data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 143 million ... Read More

I Got A Measly $14.90 From Equifax’s Data Breach Settlement

MORE FROM FORBESHere's Why You Could Get As Little As $0.21 From Equifax's Data Breach SettlementBy Shahar Ziv The FTC believed that only a minute fraction of the 147 million Americans would care ... Read More

Equifax Data Breach Settlement Of Up To $700M Largest Ever

Equifax will pay up to $425 million into a victim’s compensation fund and $275 million in civil penalties to settle litigation around a 2017 data breach ... million to the Consumer Financial ... Read More

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claimants in the Equifax case are unlikely to receive the $125 payout. If Wawa customers have shopped in stores between March 4 and December 12, 2019, it is highly likely that their data could ... Read More

Credit freezes will be free, thanks to banking deregulation law and Equifax changes

The Equifax data breach ... huge news for weeks after the credit monitoring firm disclosed that it had discovered on July 29, 2017, that criminals had gained access to key consumer data from ... Read More

Equifax to Pay $700M in Data Breach Settlement

WASHINGTON (AP) — Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the U.S. and states over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 ... Read More

Equifax Data Breach Hit Me: Here's How I Protect Myself Now

Even excluding the many corporate hacks that happen regularly, 145.5 million people were affected in the Equifax breach ... but they can also be hacked. Consumer Reports has a great introduction ... Read More

AT&T data-breach victims: Here’s something better than credit monitoring — and it’s free

AT&T is offering to pay for credit monitoring for some of its customers in the wake of a data breach that spilled ... a credit report, but a consumer needs to contact Equifax, TransUnion and ... Read More

What to know about the AT&T data breach

Data compromised in the breach includes customers' full names, birthdays, social security numbers, physical and email addresses, and AT&T account details. Consumer experts say if customers are not ... Read More

Equifax to pay up to 700 million dollars in data breach settlement

Equifax will pay at least 700 million dollars (£560 million) — and potentially much more — to settle lawsuits over a 2017 data breach that exposed the social security numbers and similar ... Read More