Oh, poo. Equifax has had a security breach

Sorry to hear guys!

Says I should be okay.

I assume you don't trust them with people's personal data, but you do trust them when they say that you were not affected???

They say my wife was not affected but I will still take all the same steps for her that I need to for myself.

Be cautious. I've read that if you sign up for that free credit monitoring you lose your ability to sue them, so read *all* of the fine print.

No. They have removed that clause after the NY Attorney General publicly complained about it.

I assume you don't trust them with people's personal data, but you do trust them when they say that you were not affected???

They say my wife was not affected but I will still take all the same steps for her that I need to for myself.

No. They have removed that clause after the NY Attorney General publicly complained about it.

Yeah, I saw that! Thank goodness. We don't have a choice to opt out of being their product, so for them to screw up this badly and have left that clause in their credit monitoring was short sighted.


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I assume you don't trust them with people's personal data, but you do trust them when they say that you were not affected???

They say my wife was not affected but I will still take all the same steps for her that I need to for myself.

No. They have removed that clause after the NY Attorney General publicly complained about it.

I have credit monitoring on one of my credit cards that I check every few months. So it would show up there.

Just an FYI for anyone who is concerned with this hack, if you've had a name change check both of them. My maiden name was impacted but not my married name.


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Sue Equifax in small claims court without a lawyer. Enter some details into a web form and it splits out eight pages of legal documents for filing. Imagine if all 143 million people did this? 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/11/16290730/equifax-chatbots-ai-joshua-browder-security-breach

Sue Equifax in small claims court without a lawyer. Enter some details into a web form and it splits out eight pages of legal documents for filing. Imagine if all 143 million people did this? 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/11/16290730/equifax-chatbots-ai-joshua-browder-security-breach

Don't you have to live in the jurisdiction of the small claims court to do that?