Equifax Told to Pay Up Over Breach. Make them Do It; Rates Start Slow, But Risks Increase From Here

Equifax Told to Pay Up Over Breach. Make them Do It; Rates Start Slow, But Risks Increase From Here

Remember the Equifax data breach? Maybe not, because it came hard on the heels of the Target data breach, and the one at Home Depot, and so on and on. In this case you might get something more out of it than aggravation, but only if you take about two minutes to submit a claim under the settlement Equifax just agreed to. However, David Lazarus, writing in the Los Angeles Times, says the company is probably hoping you won't. The intrusion into Equifax's massive base of personal credit data occurred in September 2017. An estimated of 147 million people had some or all of their information, which might have included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver's license numbers, stolen by hackers through a flaw in a software program flaw in a tool designed to build web