Yet, no one will lose their job. Incompetence is never punished.
Customers?
“It then hired a cybersecurity firm...”
Probably a good idea to hire these firms BEFORE the leaks...and yes, I wouldn’t mind jailing execs who don’t take the security of their customers seriously.
Long on big numbers and short on facts.
People having access doesn’t mean people definitely downloaded part or all of the information.
One thinks of two 13 year olds goofing around because they are bored.
“Hey, we got in. What next?” “Hey mom, can we order pizza and watch ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’”
Thank you for posting this!!!
It has always bugged me that these “credit companies”
(equifax, transunion, and experian)
make a whole lot money of off my private information
(any yours and everyone else’s)
but I don’t get any cut of the action.
In a list of industries that are overrun with incompetence, I think information technology is second only to journalism.
I would bet this was intentional. If the people won’t submit and become serfs by their own will we will make them!
July 29th. As usual, it’s being reported over a month after the fact. Screw the “customers” who have no choice about these dummies storing thier PII in digital shoeboxes. Now it’s onward, business as usual, no consequences.
Kill Equifax, as an example to encourage the others to do better....
Has anyone been able to log into the Lifelock site?
The site times out when I try to log in.
bmp
Re: Equifax hacking and break in
I use Norton and Lifelock.
This morning, I got an email from Norton the Equifax hacking and break in. That email allowed me (hopefully others) to go to a site that checks if your emails are in hands of known criminals.
I can’t post my email because of personal data on it. According to Norton, our emails are safe via that personal email/link.
However, the link below worked for two neighbors, non Norton Customers from different homes to check out if their email had been hacked.
If you get a reply that their server is down, wait a few minutes to then try again. That worked for both neighbors. They have to be getting swamped by their customers and equifax’s.
Oh, I’m a customer is it? I thought you were just spying on me and gathering information to sell to others.
So here's a quick article on how to Freeze Your Credit Report at all three Credit Reporting Bureau's.
This is really the ONLY truly effective way to stop anyone who steals your identity from opening up credit cards, taking out loans, or otherwise using your good name to obtain credit.
The article gives both the Websites and Phone#'s of all three credit reporting agencies with instructions on how to freeze your credit report.
The cost is $10 per credit agency to freeze your credit report which to me was peace of mind. The "downside" is that there's also a cost any time you want to un-freeze your credit report to obtain credit or allow a credit check for things like buying a car, opening a new credit card, etc..
I have no need to do those things at the moment so I felt "better safe than sorry" to freeze all three credit reports.
While I recommend reading the article because it does contain good information, here's the phone#'s for each Credit Reporting agency. It's a simple matter to follow the phone prompts to freeze your credit report, have a credit card handy to do it:
Equifax: Freeze Your Equifax Credit Report, 1-800-685-1111 (NY residents 1-800-349-9960)
Experian: Freeze Your Experian Credit Report, 1-888-397-3742
TransUnion: Freeze Your TransUnion Credit Report, 1-888-909-8872
I would venture a guess that Facebook is more a threat to privacy. The personal information revealed on Facebook is a more serious threat to identity theft.
I went to the website and followed the prompts. It said I “may have been compromised”. When I went through the steps it wanted me to sign up for identity protection. And it asked for my SS #. You’d think if they know I’ve been compromised they’d HAVE my SS #. I stopped the process. It’s a scam!