[mplc51]

Takes 2 minutes to find out if you were one involved. You either get $125 cash 0r 10 years of credit monitoring. Your choice. My family of 4 all were hit.

[old-ager]

What keeps them from losing the personal info I submit in this claim?

[mindburglar]

Hopefully blockchain puts disgusting scuzzbag companies like Equifax out of business.

[old-ager]

Isn’t Equifax one of the last places we would go for credit monitoring?

They should have been shut down, and bosses jailed.

[utax]

Too funny! You have to provide those incompetent morons with the last 6 digits of your SS!!

[midnightcat]

yes, I was hit by the breach as well :(

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Date breach?

[Puppage]

Me, too. I took the credit monitoring. It’s worth a lot more than $125 to me.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Why is it not their responsibility to notify EVERYONE whose data they compromised?

[catnipman]

thanks for posting this ... i forwarded it to my political email list of friends and family and filed a claim for myself: I took the $125.00 because i monitor my own CCs and haven’t seen anything untoward since this happened ...

[Zathras]

The people who mandated credit gathering and force us do dance to their song now give us a pat on the butt and tell us to go on our way.
HANG UM!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Equifax denies any wrongdoing

Equifax is full of BS. They exposed millions of social security numbers, names, addresses, incomes and birth dates to the world, and the people affected will need to spend the rest of their lives knowing that they are exposed to identity theft and credit fraud. That's worth a lot more than $125 to every single person who was affected by Equifax's complete failure to secure private data. They deserve to be sued out of existence, and their execs need to be facing criminal charges. The US government needs to pass laws which make breaches of data privacy a matter of life and death for corporations which insist on collecting and trading vital private information about us. The EU-GDPR gets the punishments right - in the EU, Equifax would be preparing for dissolution right now. In the US, they're preparing to take some FTC swamp-dwellers to dinner.

$125 or 10 years of credit monitoring - and in exchange we sign away any right to further compensation if some criminal in Turkmenistan assumes our identity and destroys our lives. Pathetic.

If you make a claim under the settlement, or if you do nothing, you will be releasing all of your legal claims relating to the Data Breach against Equifax when the settlement becomes final. By releasing your legal claims, you are giving up the right to file, or to continue to pursue, separate legal claims against or seek further compensation from Equifax for any harm related to the Data Breach—whether or not you are currently aware of those claims.

[I want the USA back]

I never authorized any “credit bureau” to gather and store information about my finances. One day I find out that there are at least 3 “credit bureaus” that do this, and that governments, employers and banks regularly fish in this information without telling me.

Then I find out that the information has been compromised. That should be more than $125.

[billyboy15]

My family all get hit but no damage resulted.

[Timmy]

Thanks for posting. Looks like it’s worth $125 to me!

[Kommodor]

Could have been worse, at least it wasn’t Laz.

(Lame attempt at humor)

[Java4Jay]

ping

[gattaca]

My family was hit.

[Jeff Chandler]

https://eligibility.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/en/eligibility

[mumblypeg]

Several years ago, I placed what I thought was a *permanent* password- protected fraud alert on my credit.

NO ONE could look at my credit report without my express consent & I would need to personally unlock it with a password (NOT mother’s maiden name!)

This actually worked for a few years. No more pre-approved solicitations, no more “inquiries” showing up on my report.

The trick is, you must keep the fraud alert active. It’s not permanent.
As soon as you drop the ball, anyone who knows your info can either look at your info or open accounts using your info.

[minnesota_bound]

You get UP TO $125 while the lawyers get hundreds of millions.