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 ...
No it doesn't. You receive a very weird message to check back on a future date. On Reddit people have been told to check back on September 11 or 12. I was told:
Thank you, Your enrollment date for TrustedID Premier is 09/12/2017. Please be sure to mark your calendar as you will not receive additional reminders. On or after your enrollment date, please return to faq.trustedidpremier.com and click the link to continue through the enrollment process. For more information, visit the FAQ page."Just unbelievable. They lose our critical data and tell us to "please cool your jets for a week [while we desperately figure out what to do now]."
Time to investigate the peculiar timing of the discovery of the breach and the stock sell-off.
And I love the response from the company: "we'll offer you 1 year free of our monitoring service". And that helps me how, exactly?
If you have ever opened a loan or credit card, that is part of your credit history and is reported by the CC or loan company to the three credit reporting agencies. The loan or cc docs you signed probably contained your consent for them to share your information with the three credit reporting companies. You DID read ALL of the fine print, didn’t you?
I believe I read that the data breach occurred in late July. I was an I.D. theft victim in early-to-mid-August. I went to their site this morning and my wife and I both showed up as “may have been impacted”. Out dates to enroll for the free so-called protection are 9/10 and 9/13 respectively. I was already planning to use another protection service. I probably still will as I don’t trust Equifax (”who watches the watchers?”).
If you ever had a credit card,mortgage,loan etc you are in a credit reporting agencies data base————that’s how the banks check your credit————they signed up for the service,you didn’t.
http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201604_cfpb_list-of-consumer-reporting-companies.pdf
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I signed up as well (reluctantly) and no where does it tell me whether or not I was impacted. Where are you seeing the outcome?
I didn’t delve into whether the premium package is 29 bucks a month for my husband AND myself or 29 bucks per person. Anyone know off hand?
I just checked and it looks surprisingly like a ploy to enroll in their premier program.
I’m suspicious enough that them wanting me to enroll in something set off alarms.
Consider: if they’re careless in the first place WHY would enrolling in their premium service be of any benefit to me.so I could be exposed to more of their carelessness?
From what I read yesterday, only three officials sold stock, stating they had no knowledge of the breach prior to the sale. The stocks sold were a very small percentage of their total holdings.
It would bring a whole new level of meaning to covering your asses. :)
“...and provide your last name and the last six digits of your Social Security number. Based on that information...”
Sure...and if you weren’t hacked the first time, it will help ensure you are the next time.
...and yet, there are just enough stupid people out there who’ll do just that.
Seems to me to be too much of the SSN. IIRC, the last 6 are basically the only unique parts- the first 3 are the state (I know that it should not be necessary to have 3 for state, of signup, but I think thats the way it is.)
Do you think it's safe to give some website the last six digits of your SS number after they already gave out millions of them? I wouldn't even give them the last three.
Me too... what’s next?
It's called extortion and last I checked it was still illegal....same goes for Lifelock. Why in the hell should I have to pay someone to keep my information "safe" when it is supposed to be protected anyway?
Thanks for that information. Didn’t know.
Say that there are 250 million in the country eighteen years old and over. Then close to 60% (143 million) have been affected. May as well assume that anyone who has ever had a mortgage, credit card, loan was hacked.
“To top it off, the big whig’s sold their stock off immediately after it was uncovered internally and before it became public knowledge.”
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That may land them some prison time. And worse, it will lower their credit scores.
6 digits? That only leaves three left which are largely a function of where you were born. Sounds like an attempt to steal one’s identity.
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