What I wanted to know was if I was one of the people, whose data was compromised. They asked me to input my last name and the last six digits of my social security number, saying that was what they needed to see if I was potentially vulnerable.
Well guess what. The gave me a date at which to sign up for their credit monitoring plan and other stuff “completely free” for a limited period of time.
They never said if my data had been lost to the cyber crooks.
After I thought about it their approach sounds like a marketing scheme to get people to sing up for credit monitoring services at a fee when the “initial period is over.”
They seem very slimy. Not sure I want anything to do with them, but I know that everything from auto insurance to car loans to even potential employers run credit checks on people.
I went to their website this morning. It said my info was hacked and gave a sign up date for enrolling in the free credit monitoring 4 days from now. I decided to do a 90 day fraud alert in the mean time..
Slimy?
I posted this earlier today on a different Equifax thread.
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These folks are dirty.
I have some 36+ years in IT dealing with them.
Background:
Many decades ago Equifax was busted making up crap on people.
Employees were told to dig up dirt on people.
The employees were so pressured to make their mandatory quotas of dirt they just started making crap up are putting it in the individuals files.
A nice way for a phishing site to steal someones identity. Knowing the last 6 digits, only gives about 600 combinations for them to try to get a correct one.