Has Equifax bothered to contact the “customers?”
They are going to send mail notices
Equifax will likely contact the banks and credit card issuing companies first. That's why I monitor my bank and credit card activity on my cellphone at least once a day. I wouldn't be surprised within a week my current cards are cancelled and a new ATM check card from my bank and a new credit card from Capital One. And Google and Yahoo! may ask me to update my login credentials.
Maybe there was a link in the article posted here; I just read in my hometown paper webpage. There is a link in the article linked above I read to a consumer information page where I checked my and my daughter's data, but we didn't sign up for the "plan".
I figured I was in their database because I've had credit checks run and recently applied for raising the limit on my one and only credit card.
Tons of people can be in their database without even knowing.