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TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people
bleeping computer ^ | 08 28 2025 | Bill Toulas

Posted on 08/28/2025 6:39:48 PM PDT by 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.

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(Excerpt) Read more at bleepingcomputer.com ...


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1 posted on 08/28/2025 6:39:48 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

I am getting tired reading about all these Trannies.


2 posted on 08/28/2025 6:40:37 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Br0nc0 promised us Trans....


3 posted on 08/28/2025 6:43:55 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: yesthatjallen

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


4 posted on 08/28/2025 6:44:29 PM PDT by paulcissa
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

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


5 posted on 08/28/2025 6:47:17 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: paulcissa

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


6 posted on 08/28/2025 6:51:06 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Term limits will get rid of corrupt politicians faster than delivery of Jimmy Johns sandwich)
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To: yesthatjallen

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


7 posted on 08/28/2025 6:54:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Paladin2

TransUnion. Sound positively demonic!


8 posted on 08/28/2025 6:58:44 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: yesthatjallen

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


9 posted on 08/28/2025 6:59:50 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

โ€œI am getting tired reading about all these Trannies.โ€

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


10 posted on 08/28/2025 7:00:02 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day)
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To: yesthatjallen

And businesses wonder why I donโ€™t want to provide any personal information.


11 posted on 08/28/2025 7:17:26 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hmmmmmmmmmm!


12 posted on 08/28/2025 7:46:07 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘! Winning currently!)
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"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.
13 posted on 08/28/2025 8:53:37 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thanks for the links.


14 posted on 08/28/2025 9:59:12 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


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


15 posted on 08/28/2025 10:28:34 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


16 posted on 08/29/2025 12:18:21 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Start by admitting from cradle to tomb, it isn't that long a stay. Life is a cabaret! )
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To: paulcissa

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


17 posted on 08/29/2025 1:05:51 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them. lol)
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To: Lockbox

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


18 posted on 08/29/2025 1:08:08 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them. lol)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


19 posted on 08/29/2025 4:26:17 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


20 posted on 08/29/2025 4:35:32 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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