Equifax breach exposes 143 million people to identity theft

ZX9RCAM · Sep 26, 2017

Southpaw said:
I posted in the quote, for some reason it's not allowing me to edit (that's on my end no doubt)

I'll repost here in response to Cam posting about the Capitol One offer....

I received the same as well even years before all this came to light. I've even gotten emails from what looks like my bank, however they were sent to an address that was never used for my actual bank which was the first red flag

Oh, I've gotten them before many times, just found it amusing.
Actually, if you look at post #15, you'll see I was not affected by the hack.

Southpaw · Sep 26, 2017

ZX9RCAM said:
Oh, I've gotten them before many times, just found it amusing.
Actually, if you look at post #15, you'll see I was not affected by the hack.

Gotcha!

busykngt · Sep 26, 2017

I’ve tracked it down for you! Actually it’s that Nigerian prince who has teamed up with Capitol One. They’re just trying to figure out a way to get that $15M to you!

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I got a notice from Capital One and Prince Muhammad last week offering to help me get the money I’m owed. I’ve already sent them my “retainer” fee so I should be getting my money just any day now! (I promise I won’t forget the little people on this forum who have always been so helpful!).
{BusyKnight exits stage left singing to himself: “We’re In The Money”}

F350-6 · Sep 26, 2017

busykngt said:
“And three Equifax executives sold large chunks of stock after the company learned about the hack but before it went public. The company has said those executives did not know about the breach.”
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Now that thar is funny.... I don’t care who ya are!
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WHERE is the SEC when ya need them???

Actually, I heard the Chairman of the SEC was currently out on vacation. Something about being on a yacht with some recently retired executives for a lavish trip or something. :cool:

AustinN4 · Sep 27, 2017

Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says
By Jennifer Surane, September 27, 2017, 4:57 PM CDT
Updated September 27, 2017, 6:30 PM CDT

The service will be introduced by Jan. 31, Chief Executive Officer Paulino do Rego Barros Jr. wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday, a day after taking the helm. The company will also extend the sign-up period for TrustedID Premier, the free credit-monitoring service it’s offering all U.S. consumers, he said.

“The service we are developing will let consumers easily lock and unlock access to their Equifax credit files,” Barros wrote. “You will be able to do this at will. It will be reliable, safe and simple. Most significantly, the service will be offered free, for life.”

More at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...fer-free-credit-freezes-for-life-new-ceo-says

TheDan · Sep 29, 2017

AustinN4 said:
“The service we are developing will let consumers easily lock and unlock access to their Equifax credit files,” Barros wrote. “You will be able to do this at will. It will be reliable, safe and simple. Most significantly, the service will be offered free, for life.”

That's very good news. IMO there's no reason this isn't already a free service. Hopefully the other two will do the same.

AustinN4 · Sep 29, 2017

TheDan said:
Hopefully the other two will do the same.

They didn't have the data breach, just say'in.

oldag · Sep 29, 2017

TheDan said:
That's very good news. IMO there's no reason this isn't already a free service. Hopefully the other two will do the same.

One of the other two has already done so.

Darkpriest667 · Sep 29, 2017

managed to freeze 3 of my 4 credit reports.. Equifax is unable to freeze it... despite that it cost me 22 dollars to freeze them.

TheDan · Oct 4, 2017

It's like watching a monkey fsck a football...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/equifax-fire-data-breach-wins-7-25-million-contract-irs/

TAZ · Oct 4, 2017

TheDan said:
It's like watching a monkey fsck a football...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/equifax-fire-data-breach-wins-7-25-million-contract-irs/

The monkeys are far more graceful than the IRS. The thought process that went through that moron Kocksinner’s head must be interesting.

busykngt · Oct 4, 2017

A sole source (i.e., no bid) contract from the IRS to Equifax?

Wow.... just wow! (And the IRS is apparently going to stay “involved” in OUR healthcare business since the Republicans don’t seem to be able to get Obamacare repealed). Talk about the fox guarding the hen house!

F350-6 · Oct 4, 2017

TheDan said:
It's like watching a monkey fsck a football...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/equifax-fire-data-breach-wins-7-25-million-contract-irs/

When did it become a football? As a kid, I remember it being a basketball? Regional thing or age gap?

TheDan · Oct 5, 2017

Well a basketball would be too easy. A football is harder to handle and bounces around unpredictably.

Pretty sure I had heard my dad say it before, but this is the first time I heard it in pop-culture...

TheDan · Oct 5, 2017

busykngt said:
A sole source (i.e., no bid) contract from the IRS to Equifax?

Yep... thought that was illegal and gov agencies were required to take multiple bids.

Chirpy · Oct 5, 2017

Unless an agency needs a unique blend of services and expertise that only a single vendor can provide.

The jokes just write themselves from there.

busykngt · Oct 5, 2017

Government ‘Sole Source’ contracts, in and of themselves, are not illegal. However, they are typically used with “follow-on” contracts when there are no other potential competitors that would be qualified to continue with some previously performed line of work.
And providing the IRS with millions of sets of citizens’ “personal data” is obviously NOT something that Equifax alone, is capable of doing. To any logically thinking person, ANY of the ‘big three’ (or four) Credit Reporting bureaus could fulfill such reporting requirements of a government contract. Perhaps that is why the one Congressman is wanting to look into why that type contract was let. On the surface, that sure seems to me like that was some kind of brother-in-law deal (unless all the other credit agencies simply “no bid”). Sometimes civilian companies ‘no bid’ because they just don’t want to put up with all the government imposed contract rules & regulations (IOW, ‘the bureaucracy’). Which is why you had the $400 hammers and $800 toilet seats of the 1980s.

busykngt · Oct 5, 2017

Ref: My posting #162
Freezing the Innovis Credit Agency data also. Just as a follow up, i received my ten digit Security Freeze Confirmation Number from Innovis; took them almost two weeks to get that to me (in the mail). But they have done the lock on my information. The number they sent, allows me to lock & unlock it myself.

AustinN4 · Oct 5, 2017

busykngt said:
Ref: My posting #162
Freezing the Innovis Credit Agency data also. Just as a follow up, i received my ten digit Security Freeze Confirmation Number from Innovis; took them almost two weeks to get that to me (in the mail). But they have done the lock on my information. The number they sent, allows me to lock & unlock it myself.

I need to do that one also.

busykngt · Oct 5, 2017

AustinN4, their website makes it super easy to do. They do ask for your full SSN, but it’s a secure website. And it will confirm the security locking code will be sent via snail mail. (Took a little longer than I was expecting but like the “big three”, I suspect they’re probably swamped with locking requests at the moment).

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