Equifax: Recent data breach exposed personal info belonging to as many as 143 million Americans
Equifax, one of the nation’s three main credit reporting agencies, has announced a “cybersecurity incident” that could potentially impact roughly 143 million U.S. consumers, according to a statement released on the company’s website. The news comes just months after a breach occurred at an Equifax subsidiary earlier this year, exposing W-2 and payroll data to criminals.…
Baloney – their website does not provide you with an answer – it appears it is unable to respond after you provide last name and last 6 digits of SSN. Screen just goes blank.
Frankly, their punishment for this horrible security lapse should be twofold – 1. class action lawsuit and 2. go out of business.
Bye bye Equifax.
then they try and sell you monitoring! Disgraceful, and these companies can kill your credit in an instant. I am so tired of NO responsibility/ consequences, for poor/slack service, zero protection, and bad behaviors of all types,today!