Go to:
https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/
To check if you were affected and claim your settlement amount, if you were.
What a friggin’ scam.
4 years of 3-bureau monitoring, followed by 6 years of 1-bureau monitoring.
OR $125. Whoopee.
Consequences of their ineptitude could last a lifetime, so free lifetime credit monitoring should’ve been giving right from the get-go. With a $10,000 payment to each person affected (to show the axxwypes we’re serious).
Is the female CEO still there? You know, the one with a degree in MUSIC?!
Thanks for posting that. I was affected and so filed a claim!
I believe you can double the amount if you itemize your expenses in dealing with this breach.
Thank you for that! I don’t know why people are basically turning down free money. They don’t ask for your social security number. They already have it. If you’re married it’s a minimum of 250 dollars free. You don’t have to purchase THEIR credit monitoring. Most people should already HAVE credit monitoring.
By accepting their money, will you be giving up any claims for future damages?
I’ll make sure you get your share. Just send me your SSN.
Was everybody compromised? If nothing happened to your credit do you still qualify?
Anyone use Lifelock that Rush always advertises? Is it worth it? This freaks me out this ID theft crap. That is the LAST thing I need right now is someone stealing my ID and needless to say all the illegals flooding into the country fake IDs is big biz.
thanks for posting. just claimed $250
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3767144/posts
this says not everyone qualified will be paid or will be paid the entire $125
You can only claim money if you can document damages to wit mitigation costs spent exceeding 10 hours.
Hence the popularity of class actin suits: lawyer gets a large fraction of a large total for starters, then keeps everything not claimed by mostly ignorant class members.
You only get the $125 is you already have credit monitoring. At least that’s how I read it.
BTTT
Bkmk for later. Thanks for posting.
And $275 million for the lawyers.
(Class action lawsuits are such a scam.)
ML/NJ
My wife and I were both affected, and as a matter of principle, I filed for each one of us. But figure in how many people may potentially file, how many people may have passed away in the interim, incomplete/inaccurate paper applications, scammers/hackers, people itemizing the amount of money and/or time they spent repairing the damage, and the court-assigned total compensation cap. The likelihood is, you’re going to get a paper check or pre-paid Visa card for about $.79. About August 2023. It’s like that StarKist class action lawsuit from four years ago, after StarKist was caught under-filling their cans over a five year period. It only got final settlement approval from the 9th Circus late last year, and I haven’t even seen a tuna sammich out of it yet.
The Lawyers get HUNDREDS of MILLIONS!
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