Los Alamos Good news! If you were affected by the 2017 Equifax data breach, you may be entitled to compensation.You can receive free credit monitoring for 10+ years from three credit agencies or up to $125 in compensation instead of the credit monitoring. If you had additional expenses as a result of the breach (and […]
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been busy lately. The agency followed up its recent $5 billion Facebook fine with two new settlements last week and this morning, with YouTube and credit reporting agency Equifax. YouTube fine about kids and data collection. According to a report last week in The Washington Post Google and
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The massive Equifax data breach that exposed personal information of millions of consumers should be of extra concern to small business owners. After all, it’s not just their personal information that’s at risk; a data breach like this can also put their businesses at risk. For many small business owners, personal and business credit is
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If you had to choose a company to “verify taxpayer identity and to assist in ongoing identity verification and validations needs” of the Internal Revenue Service, who would you choose? Some company expert in identity verification and, of course, security? The IRS chose Equifax. Yes, Equifax. The credit reporting firm that saw a massive data
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The CEO of the credit assessment company Equifax, Richard Smith, is stepping down from his post following a whirlwind of bad press stemming from a massive security breach, according to the Associated Press Both Congress and the N.Y. Attorney General’s office have made it clear that they want to investigate the ordeal. The company has dealt with a number
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Part of the huge Equifax data breach announcement on September 8 was the notification that the company had a website consumers could use to see if they were one of the victims. Notifications are a fairly standard legal requirement. But there were some significant questions about the website that Equifax set up and implications of
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