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Equifax Update

JanetsGirl — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:02:20 GMT

FYI: Equifax updated its list of accounts that may have been breached by the hack. New accounts were added to the list as of Oct. 8. So, if you checked on their website before Oct. 8 to see if you were affected and were told "no," you need to check again now.

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meallen616 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:07:30 GMT

Thanks for posting,

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esmeraldagooch — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:28:47 GMT

The news yesterday said they may have been hacked of 10 million drivers license numbers also. I have no faith in these people.

Since they got a IRS contract this week this is even more troubling.

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Krimpette — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:31:10 GMT

@esmeraldagooch. I agree about the IRS contract! Insane!!!!! Equifax should be shut down IMHO.

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gizmogal — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:34:55 GMT

@esmeraldagooch wrote:
The news yesterday said they may have been hacked of 10 million drivers license numbers also. I have no faith in these people.

Since they got a IRS contract this week this is even more troubling.

The IRS contract has been suspended indefinitely. Equifax will not be “rewarded” for their negligence.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-equifax-irs-contract-20171013-story.html

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Krimpette — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:40:26 GMT

@gizmogal. Good to know about the IRS contract suspension, though I wish it had been cancelled, rather than just suspended. Thanks for the link.

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Drythe — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:45:59 GMT

To add insult to injury, I've signed up for every "protection" they've offered, and had none of the promised replies!

Every time I call they tell me their servers are "very, very busy", I just bet they are.

If their fire walls were as bad as their service no wonder they were hacked.

At any rate I've frozen my accounts.

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sunshine45 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:56:41 GMT

every day i am more and more glad that i did NOT enter anything into the equifax website after all of this came out.

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Jordan2 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:49:43 GMT

@sunshine45, I didn't want to give them 6 of 9 digits of my social security number. When you activate a new credit card, they only ask for 4. I was very uneasy, so I didn't do it.

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on the bay — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:58:40 GMT

I wouldn't want to enter anything into the equifax website, to find out if I had been hacked.

I froze all 3 of them instead.

If you don't need to open any credit anytime soon, that made sense to me.

I wouldn't trust entering anything into a company that has already been hacked! (except to freeze credit which can be done by an automated phone call).

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CatsyCline — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:04:33 GMT

More than 2 weeks ago I used Transunion and placed a fraud alert . Besides Transunion (i created an account) I got one mailed confirmation - from Experian. Crickets from Equifax

Last week I placed 3 security freezes. TRansUnion via my account; Equifax and Experian by phone. Yesterday, I recieved a mailed confirmation from Experian.

Still NOTHING from Equifax. And I never entered my SSN into that database .

And now that I have frozen my credit, I received an "Invitation" in the mail for a MasterCard Black Card. Only $495.00 annual fee. Titanium !

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Sooner — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 01:25:29 GMT

I never checked my info because I assume someone out there already has it and eventually will get around to me anyway. Why give them your info again?