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Equifax : Cybersecurity Incident & Important Consumer Information
Equifax ^ | September 6th, 2017 | Equifax

Posted on 09/08/2017 7:02:03 AM PDT by pikachu

To determine if your personal information may have been impacted by this incident, please follow the below steps:

Click on the below link, “Check Potential Impact,” and provide your last name and the last six digits of your Social Security number. Based on that information, you will receive a message indicating whether your personal information may have been impacted by this incident. Regardless of whether your information may have been impacted, we will provide you the option to enroll in TrustedID Premier. You will receive an enrollment date. You should return to this site and follow the “How do I enroll?” instructions below on or after that date to continue the enrollment and activation process. The enrollment period ends on Tuesday, November 21, 2017

(Excerpt) Read more at equifaxsecurity2017.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: credit; equifax; equifaxhacked; fraud; identitytheft; scam; ssn
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To: TADSLOS
So, I'm going to go to their compromised site and enter my SSN to find out if my SSN has been compromised just to make it official? 🤔

What could go wrong?

Even if it was legit. "So we lost/gave away your information, but for the low price of $XX.XX we can NOW protect your information."

I think there is a legal definition for this.....

21 posted on 09/08/2017 7:19:33 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: Thank You Rush

I am hesitant to go to that link and check. I think they owe ALL of us who were impacted more than just protection but what good will some kind of free protection do if the info. is already in the wrong hands?


22 posted on 09/08/2017 7:19:36 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
To top it off, the big whig’s sold their stock off immediately after it was uncovered internally and before it became public knowledge.

Isn't that blatant Insider Trading?

23 posted on 09/08/2017 7:20:06 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: pikachu

I’m thinking it must be a scam. I’ve never used Equafax services, but I did the check and it stated:

Based on the information provided, we believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident.

It “may” have been impacted. They would know definitively if it had been or not. Scam if you ask me.


24 posted on 09/08/2017 7:21:20 AM PDT by CodeJockey (White privilege. A byproduct of superior intellect. Nothing more, nothing less.)
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To: pikachu

This site is very suspect. By providing the last 6 digits of your SS #, you are essentially providing a key to your full SS #. The first 3 numbers are fixed by the state or territory from which it was issued. A very small universe of 3 digit numbers.


25 posted on 09/08/2017 7:21:31 AM PDT by Fizzie
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To: pikachu

Makes me think of Obama’s amazing, incredible, out of this world database.


26 posted on 09/08/2017 7:21:49 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: pikachu

acronym of “bend over here it comes again.”


27 posted on 09/08/2017 7:22:03 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Thank You Rush

It checks by your last 6 of your SS number and your last name.

I also checked my wife, and it reported that she was not impacted.

I just looked at the link and it was the same one that I used this morning.


28 posted on 09/08/2017 7:22:16 AM PDT by Klemper
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To: Chickensoup

You can visit the Equifax homepage directly and there’s a blurb at the top of the page that’ll lead you to the check/impact site. The blurb is new as I checked last night for a statement from the company...and there wasn’t one yet.


29 posted on 09/08/2017 7:22:36 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Dick Vomer

Yes it does, like I am going to do that. Not!!!


30 posted on 09/08/2017 7:22:43 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Klemper

It says MAY HAVE BEEN when I checked. Here’s what it said: Based on the information provided, we believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident.

Click the button below to continue your enrollment in TrustedID Premier.

Makes me really wonder and if someone already has my info, what good will this do to click and sign up?


31 posted on 09/08/2017 7:23:14 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: pikachu

Right...you’re telling me the smart thing to do is go to a site that just went up and give them the last 6 numbers of my SS?

Yep...I’m all over it.


32 posted on 09/08/2017 7:23:52 AM PDT by Herodes
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To: CodeJockey

If you have credit (good, bad, indifferent)...they have your info period.

So yes, your info could be stolen in the breach.


33 posted on 09/08/2017 7:25:37 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Chickensoup

Go to equifax.com - they have a banner acknowledging the issue and a link from there leading to the same place. Appears legit.


34 posted on 09/08/2017 7:25:56 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: pikachu

bbb


35 posted on 09/08/2017 7:26:05 AM PDT by thinden
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To: ClearCase_guy

That would depend on what your definition blatant. Common sense doesn’t figure in.


36 posted on 09/08/2017 7:26:12 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: moovova

My son got “may have been impacted”-——I’m okay,so far.


37 posted on 09/08/2017 7:27:43 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

I was impacted. Haven’t checked the wife or kids yet.

The offered protection plan should be in perpetuity as the “impact” will be forever.


38 posted on 09/08/2017 7:30:59 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Mears

So if I never used their services, how does ones info get into their database? I’m sure 143 million did not sign up for their service. That’s almost half of the entire population of the US.

Something does not add up here?


39 posted on 09/08/2017 7:32:01 AM PDT by CodeJockey (White privilege. A byproduct of superior intellect. Nothing more, nothing less.)
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To: TADSLOS
So, I'm going to go to their compromised site and enter my SSN to find out if my SSN has been compromised just to make it official? 🤔

That is correct. You MUST do this. Otherwise we cannot guarantee that your personal information has been officially hacked and compromised. this is the only way to make sure you are truly screwed. Also it would be beneficial to have your bank account numbers handy. Our Nigerian operators are standing by to assist you.

40 posted on 09/08/2017 7:32:37 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I bought a house on a one-way street that's also a dead end and now I can't leave.)
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