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22 Sep 2017, 7:52 am by David N. Patariu
As we discussed recently, the Equifax data breach has inevitably brought a great deal of scrutiny and legal action against the credit reporting agency. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 3:50 am by Richard Forno
With credit-reporting companies like Equifax, the problem is even more amplified. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 3:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  As we’re all aware, a cyber security breach earlier this summer at the credit reporting agency Equifax exposed the sensitive personal information of roughly half of the United States population, leaving millions of Americans vulnerable to identity theft and fraud. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 6:13 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
FTC – “If you have a credit report, there’s a good chance that you’re one of the 143 million American consumers whose sensitive personal information was exposed in a data breach at Equifax, one of the nation’s three major credit reporting agencies. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 12:46 pm
As discussed above, the client should pay close attention to those.Because a creditor could seek a report from any of the three major national reporting agenciesEquifax, Trans Union, and Experian—the consumer must place a credit freeze with each of the three reporting agencies. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 12:41 pm by Jonathon Churchin
Warren also wrote letters Equifax and other credit monitoring agencies to gain information... [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 12:58 pm
The three main credit reporting agencies in the U.S. are Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 2:13 pm by Adam Levitin
 Here goes:  If we’re going to have any chance of fixing things with Equifax and other consumer reporting agencies (CRAs), we have to first diagnose what went wrong. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 8:30 am by Merritt Baer, Chinmayi Sharma
For example, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) establishes statutory standards of care for how consumer reporting agencies (like Equifax) use or limit access to your information in the normal course of business. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 5:47 am by Staci Zaretsky
[Big Law Business] * Lawmakers from both parties are interested in holding hearings on the massive Equifax hack, and after outcry from state attorneys general about an arbitration clause that would have prevented those affected by the data breach from suing, the credit reporting agency has changed its terms of service. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:50 am by Sean Gallagher
Unfortunately, as things stand, the burden is on you to protect yourself in the long term—and the credit reporting agencies stand to profit from it. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:23 am by Garrett Hinck
The credit reporting agency Equifax announced on Thursday that hackers may have compromised the personal information of up to 143 million American customers, the New York Times reported. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 9:35 am by David Kravets
Many of the affected consumers have never even directly done business with the giant consumer credit reporting agency. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 7:16 am by Fox Rothschild LLP
It wasn’t a good week for credit reporting agency Equifax, which admitted to a major data breach affecting more than 143 million people. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 6:46 am by Cathy Moran
Half the US population may be affected by the hacking of credit reporting agency Equifax. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 6:39 am
In case you haven't heard, credit reporting agency Equifax recently "experienced" a rather substantial security breach, affecting at least 143 million of its, well, "customers:""Equifax said data on 143 million U.S. customers was obtained in a breach (which) occurred on July 29. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 6:00 am by Doug Cornelius
The credit-reporting service said late Thursday in a statement that it discovered the intrusion on July 29. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 4:18 pm by Michael Wasserman
 Equifax, one of the big three credit reporting agencies admitted today that a massive security breach took place earlier this year in which offenders accessed data sets on 143 million US consumer.... wait for it... social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, (some) credit card numbers, and (some) drivers license numbers.Oy.How widespread is the data heist? [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 2:50 pm
In perhaps one of the largest security breaches ever, the credit reporting agency Equifax has admitted that criminal hackers have had access to over 143 Million consumers' files, including names, Social Security Numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver's licenses. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 10:07 pm
  More consumers complain to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about the Big Three credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) than almost all other financial companies in the U.S. [read post]