Posted on 09/07/2017 9:33:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The method for asking for it always needs to go through the inner sanctum. A bulk dump impossible.
It looks like a breach of the inner sanctum. Someone absconded with a bulk dump.
According to the article, they didn’t access credit reports. Just SS numbers and other personal data. That would have been a total disaster if they did.
Well still, that’s an open door to fraud. The SSN has become too mighty. People ought to be able to designate some private additional key. If Equifax proposed a workable solution, it could turn a flop into a success.
I regret entering into this exchange with you and will not make that mistake again. If you behave in this manner in your day to day life as opposed to merely banging a keyboard online, it’s surprising that you’re employable in any capacity.
Once more and for the last time, have a good morning.
Look, not to be unkind.
But why was it you were being so diligent?
If it was just to look respectable for its own sake, rather than because your heart and the Lord’s were in the same place about fair dealing — well, the Lord calls that hypocrisy and it’s not just bad, it’s sad!
The Lord’s heart is glad except where it stoops to share in our sadness in order to raise us up again. Start singing praises and just watch what begins to happen. Don’t put any mental lid on where the Lord can go with you — not because you earned it but because He wanted to give it to you and you were willing to joyfully take the unearned gift and raise it to His glory.
You could be killing yourself with “diligence” — because it’s about the wrong things first.
Why can’t you have a good morning? It sounds like you are having a very bad one full of gratuitous judgment.
Mite, log?
You get free 90 day credit freezes for suspected fraud. If they are going to make money from my SS and info, it seems to me I ought to have more control over when I can freeze/unfreeze my account without being charged for it.
From link:
“No Evidence of Unauthorized Access to Core Consumer or Commercial Credit Reporting Databases
Company to Offer Free Identity Theft Protection and Credit File Monitoring to All U.S. Consumers”
Well isn’t that just extra special on their part.
Oh guess what. I aced an interview with Equifax.
I might be the one to engineer the solution to this general problem — just because I believed it possible.
Have a great judgmental day. That’s probably why YOU don’t get anywhere.
Of course they did.
Nothing is free. They will have your new credit card number tied to the automatically updating account and you will be charged for the next year unless you specifically tell them to turn it off. If you give them the acct # the card is tied to, even if you cancel those cards, the main account is tied to the service and any new cards issued will automatically be signed up for the automatic subscription.
In other words, there is no way to do business with them without them being able to screw you without you knowing until its too late.
Thanks. Says I was impacted.
LOL! Congratulations.
I’m looking at the news account again.
It’s deja vu all over again. It wasn’t an inner sanctum issue, thank the merciful Lord. It was a website security problem.
5 years ago I took a crash course in website security at Xerox. It’s trickier than it looks. Secure pages can still have nonsecure content, providing an avenue for leakage of individual secure data outside of the proper context (as to the computer of a waiting hacker). The result will NOT be a spill of half of America’s data because many never used the tainted website(s).
Did you happen to do anything online that has to do with applying for credit?
Did you happen to do anything online that has to do with applying for credit?
No. Equifax is one of the reporting agencies though. If you’ve ever used credit before (and who hasn’t even if it’s just a mortgage) you’re in their files.
I am looking at the reported cause though. A website security issue.
This would be something, some transaction, that causes the website to want to look at your credit. It could be applying for a credit card. It could be signing up for some transaction where the extender of the transaction wants to know how well it can trust you. Renting a car could fall into that category.
Haven’t went there. Haven’t applied for credit. Haven’t rented a car, etc. haven’t done anything in years.
Either they’re lieing or I shouldn’t be ‘impacted’.
When did you get your credit cards,or charge accounts for individual stores?
Equifax has been around for many years.
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We have been in the same routine forever. Same cc we’ve had for 30 years. Mortgage is paid off. No car finances. We haven’t changed a thing in years and years.
I don’t have store charge accounts. I either pay cash or use Amex.
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