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I'm unsure how many people have heard about it considering the 2 back to back hurricanes in the US, but you all might want to start locking your credit reports as it affects 143 million people or so.
Here's the thing, they may or may not have gotten credit card numbers. They DID in fact get SS numbers, home addresses, telephone numbers, the stuff that makes it easier to GET that credit.
So I took some steps to protect myself:
I Opted out of credit offers for 5 years https://www.optoutprescreen.com
Go to Equifax https://www.equifax.com/personal/ and fill out their information you'll find out if you're affected or not
Transunion go to my free identity protection https://www.transunion.com/
Experian will make you pay. And of course you can lock your credit report but if you don't buy their bundled package for 24.99 a month, it will cost you to unlock it (5-10 dollars a pop depending on the state you're in) I can't say the nasty names I'm thinking in polite company about their "product". But good to know they'll be making lots of money off this.![Roll Eyes :roll2: :roll2:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
http://www.experian.com/consumer-products/identity-theft-and-credit-protection.html
Some reasons why this is so messed up:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/ayuda-help-equifax-has-my-data/
https://arstechnica.com/information...caused-by-failure-to-patch-two-month-old-bug/
Basically somebody(s) got lazy and due diligence wasn't followed.
Here's the thing, they may or may not have gotten credit card numbers. They DID in fact get SS numbers, home addresses, telephone numbers, the stuff that makes it easier to GET that credit.
So I took some steps to protect myself:
I Opted out of credit offers for 5 years https://www.optoutprescreen.com
Go to Equifax https://www.equifax.com/personal/ and fill out their information you'll find out if you're affected or not
Transunion go to my free identity protection https://www.transunion.com/
Experian will make you pay. And of course you can lock your credit report but if you don't buy their bundled package for 24.99 a month, it will cost you to unlock it (5-10 dollars a pop depending on the state you're in) I can't say the nasty names I'm thinking in polite company about their "product". But good to know they'll be making lots of money off this.
http://www.experian.com/consumer-products/identity-theft-and-credit-protection.html
Some reasons why this is so messed up:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/ayuda-help-equifax-has-my-data/
It took almost no time for them to discover that an online portal designed to let Equifax employees in Argentina manage credit report disputes from consumers in that country was wide open, protected by perhaps the most easy-to-guess password combination ever: “admin/admin.”
https://arstechnica.com/information...caused-by-failure-to-patch-two-month-old-bug/
"Equifax has been intensely investigating the scope of the intrusion with the assistance of a leading, independent cybersecurity firm to determine what information was accessed and who has been impacted," company officials wrote in an update posted online. "We know that criminals exploited a US website application vulnerability. The vulnerability was Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638. We continue to work with law enforcement as part of our criminal investigation, and have shared indicators of compromise with law enforcement."
Basically somebody(s) got lazy and due diligence wasn't followed.