Checked Your Credit Since the Equifax Hack?
Summary: A consumer survey cited by Krebs on Security found that half of all Americans still had not checked their credit report since the Equifax breach exposed Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and other personal information on nearly 150 million people. Krebs urges readers to order free reports from annualcreditreport.com, the only site mandated by Congress to provide each American a free report yearly from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, and to consider a security freeze, which blocks creditors from pulling a credit file unless it is thawed first.
Key Takeaway: Most of the consumer data exposed in the Equifax breach had already been for sale in the cybercrime underground for years, so the breach may have simply refreshed criminal data stores - and a freeze only stops new lines of credit, not misuse of the Social Security numbers and addresses that never appear on a credit report.
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