Posted on 10/12/2017 11:00:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right
In May credit reporting service Equifax's website was breached by attackers who eventually made off with Social Security numbers, names, and a dizzying amount of other details for some 145.5 million US consumers.
For several hours on Wednesday, and again early Thursday morning, the site was maliciously manipulated again, this time to deliver fraudulent Adobe Flash updates, which when clicked, infected visitors' computers with adware that was detected by only three of 65 antivirus providers.
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You raised a good point. Equifax is too big to fail. Too much stuff going on to be allowed to fail..
More like a camel toe slot.
> Will probably go with a freeze in the near future. <
I’m thinking about that as well. What is the down-side to a credit freeze? I really don’t see one. If a company needs to check my credit, I can temporarily unfreeze my credit reports, just for that one company.
Some folks object to a credit freeze because you have to give them personal info. But they already have that info!
So what are your thoughts on this?
The freeze cost varies from state to state. Being under 65 in Illinois it is $10 to freeze and another $10 to unfreeze per agency. Some states don’t charge to freeze, but charge to unfreeze. I was kind of hoping the Equifax mess would lead to something new or a waiver of the fees. One thing I refuse to do is use the free Equifax credit monitoring App.
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