TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

bleeping computer ^ | 08 28 2025 | Bill Toulas

[yesthatjallen]

Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States, with BleepingComputer learning the data was stolen from it's Salesforce account.

TransUnion is one of the three major credit bureaus in the United States, alongside Equifax and Experian. It operates in 30 countries, employs 13,000 staff, and has an annual revenue of $3 billion.

It collects and maintains credit information on over 1 billion consumers worldwide, with approximately 200 million of those based in the U.S. This information is shared with 65,000 businesses, including lenders, insurers, and employers.

According to a filing submitted to the Office of the Maine AG, the breach occurred on July 28, 2025, and was discovered two days later.

A sample of the notifications distributed to impacted clients earlier this week specifies that the incident involved a third-party application serving the company's consumer support operations.

"We recently experienced a cyber incident involving a third-party application serving our U.S. consumer support operations," reads the data breach notice.

"The unauthorized access includes some limited personal information belonging to you."

The data exposed in this incident was "limited" according to the company, although what exactly it might entail hasn't been specified in the sample notification.

SNIP

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KEYWORDS: breach; crime; data; databreach; hacking; salesforce; theft; transunion

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I am getting tired reading about all these Trannies.

[Paladin2]

Br0nc0 promised us Trans....

[paulcissa]

Nothing is private. Privacy is an artifact of the past.

[waterhill]

They should fix up and reopen the Trans-Allegheny Insane Asylum.

[Bobbyvotes]

Exactly. CIA Knows how many times you get up to pee during the night.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You can lock your three credit reports for free.

Nobody can take out loans in your name if they are locked.

It’s the same thing LifeLock charges thirty bucks a month for.

When you need to have one checked to get a loan you can temporarily unfreeze it and give them a code to access it.

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/credit-education/preventing-fraud/security-freeze/

https://www.transunion.com/credit-freeze

https://www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/credit-freeze/

https://www.experian.com/help/credit-freeze/

You can request one free credit report per year from each.

https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action

[MIchaelTArchangel]

TransUnion. Sound positively demonic!

[philman_36]

Easy solution. No debt means no credit score to lose.

[The Antiyuppie]

“I am getting tired reading about all these Trannies.”

I am not all that surprised that they have a union.

[Lockbox]

And businesses wonder why I don’t want to provide any personal information.

[rktman]

Hmmmmmmmmmm!

[Bikkuri]

"You can lock your three credit reports for free."

I was alerted to my SS being detected at multiple sites about 3 years ago, and the first thing I did was to freeze all 3.

[RitchieAprile]

Thanks for the links.

[dayglored]

Thank you for posting these links, very handy and much appreciated!!

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https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/credit-education/preventing-fraud/security-freeze/

https://www.transunion.com/credit-freeze

https://www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/credit-freeze/

https://www.experian.com/help/credit-freeze/

You can request one free credit report per year from each.

https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action

[NautiNurse]

Thursday my bank’s two-factor authorization was not working all afternoon, preventing online bank access. No authorization codes appeared until after 4:00 PM, when a flood of six authorization codes sailed into my txt messages. So I cancelled the two-factor authorization.

[no-to-illegals]

Your post is fact. I was told by a police detective that we are all compromised.

[no-to-illegals]

Exactly. A phone number is as valuable to a criminal as a SS#.

[maddog55]

All these credit bureaus need to be shut down. In this case they lose your identity and then want you to pay them to protect it. Between the three they never match and I keep a 24/7/365 freeze on mine.

Totally worthless corporations.

[maddog55]

I’ve kept my frozen since 2008. You would think anyone that knows anything about credit bureaus would do the same. I’ve also had Life Lock since about the same time.