Science PSA for all Americans: Equifax Breach

There are 3 credit bureaus that know everything about you and whose data makes up your 'credit score', demonstrating your credit trustworthiness for a variety of applications and features.

One of these companies, Equifax, has been breached. Months ago. The CEOs sold off all their stock and dropped off their face of the planet before their stock dropped. This breach affects more than 140 million Americans and Canadians. Even if you've never had a credit card, Equifax probably has a dossier on you.

They opened a website to check if you're breached. I suggest doing so. It will only give you a yes/no answer.

READ THIS BEFORE CHECKING: this is a scam by Equifax, profiting off their own data breach. Once you get your result, if it's true, you will be forwarded to a page just saying "you're fucked mate" with a link to an identity theft protection service. DO. NOT. ENROLL. If you do, you WAIVE YOUR RIGHTS TO THE BENEFITS OF A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT. So you can check, but you should not enroll to any service subsequently.

https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/potential-impact/


vv DO NOT CLICK ENROLL IT WAIVES YOUR RIGHTS TO LAWSUITS vv

p.s. bitcoin

 

[CatParty]

All clean!

 

[GS 281]

Even if you've never had a credit card, Equifax probably has a dossier on you.

They're still not as accurate as @zedkissed60 or @Ride

 

[Hui]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/...e-confusing-heres-what-to-do-now.html?mcubz=3

"By Friday morning, this had changed, and I got a “your personal information may have been impacted by this incident” notification. Progress. Except as my friend Justin Soffer pointed out on Twitter, you can enter a random name and number into the site and it will tell you the same thing. Indeed, I typed “Trump” and arbitrary numbers and got the same message."

Website is bullshit. They don't know anything but given that you are prob fucked and have to look into this shit yourself.

FFS I just typed in Miku and 456321 as social and shit said "your personal info has been blah blah blah".

 

[Very Honest Content]

Amazingly, the overlords of the credit record are inveterate scum.

Project Mayhem turned out to be for great justice only, too bad it got derailed.

 

[Gaol]

As Null pointed out, the website was probably made for people to enroll and waive their rights, the message is the same and there is no clear definition of what personal information was taken. In truth as we all know here, personal privacy is something of the past, you can find anyone's documents with ease.

 

[Mike Hunt]

There are 3 credit bureaus that know everything about you and whose data makes up your 'credit score', demonstrating your credit trustworthiness for a variety of applications and features.

One of these companies, Equifax, has been breached. Months ago. The CEOs sold off all their stock and dropped off their face of the planet before their stock dropped. This breach affects more than 140 million Americans and Canadians. Even if you've never had a credit card, Equifax probably has a dossier on you.

They opened a website to check if you're breached. I suggest doing so. It will only give you a yes/no answer.

READ THIS BEFORE CHECKING: this is a scam by Equifax, profiting off their own data breach. Once you get your result, if it's true, you will be forwarded to a page just saying "you're fucked mate" with a link to an identity theft protection service. DO. NOT. ENROLL. If you do, you WAIVE YOUR RIGHTS TO THE BENEFITS OF A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT. So you can check, but you should not enroll to any service subsequently.

https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/potential-impact/


vv DO NOT CLICK ENROLL IT WAIVES YOUR RIGHTS TO LAWSUITS vv

p.s. bitcoin

Not an American, but this is good info for fellow Kiwis who happen to be. Thanks, Null.

As an aside, and on a tangential note, how many Kiwis are already into cryptocurrency, and would you recommend getting into it still at this point?

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

How kind of Equifax to offer free credit monitoring, especially when the fact that they were monitoring my credit without my permission is the reason this happened in the first place.

 

[vertexwindi]

How kind of Equifax to offer free credit monitoring, especially when the fact that they were monitoring my credit without my permission is the reason this happened in the first place.

That's just how credit bureaus function in America, apparently. You need that data to calculate your credit score.

Of course there are bigger problems here. If you save all that info as rawtext then you're a fucking retard and selling off your stocks right before announcing this leak is, I'm pretty sure, illegal as fuck.

 

[thismanlies]

I posted this in the other thread. But the attorney general for the state of New York said that agreement was unenforceable.

 

[Magique]

What do this mean Do not enroll? Asking because I'm french, sorry for sounding exceptionnal.

EDIT: Nevermind. I found out, totally safe.

 

[Hui]

What do this mean Do not enroll? Asking because I'm french, sorry for sounding exceptionnal.

The website is just there so that it can tell you they sold your data (no matter what you put) and to get into a system which you have to pay them to monitor your stolen data and wave any rights of suing them. (they got sued because of this same reason)

 

[Joy-Sama]

Wow, didn't know they just took the money and ran like some inbred couple being hunted by the cops. Guess they had make money somehow, knowing that their security is on par with that of early 2003 Deviantart.

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

That's just how credit bureaus function in America, apparently. You need that data to calculate your credit score.

Of course there are bigger problems here. If you save all that info as rawtext then you're a fucking exceptional individual and selling off your stocks right before announcing this leak is, I'm pretty sure, illegal as fuck.

Mm, no. The big problem is the first thing. Some IT goof fucking up is no big deal. On the other hand, a system where people are silently judged about purchases they may or may not have made based on proprietary algorithms is confirmation that we're living in a dystopia.

 

[Cake Farts]

Just another day in the life of the unassuming american citizen getting cucked by some big agency

 

[Hui]

Mm, no. The big problem is the first thing. Some IT goof fucking up is no big deal. On the other hand, a system where people are silently judged about purchases they may or may not have made based on proprietary algorithms is confirmation that we're living in a dystopia.

No, people having your social and doing crimes is.

 

[EYECulter]

Man. My heart goes out to the people who will get fucked over by this. There's always more than meets the eye when a bank or big agency offers an easy class action or offers easy help for something big. thanks for letting me know about the class action! I will tell my friends and family. I strongly reccomend everyone else does too

 

[pelicannon]

Thanks Null

 

[frozenrunner]

The website is just there so that it can tell you they sold your data (no matter what you put) and to get into a system which you have to pay them to monitor your stolen data and wave any rights of suing them. (they got sued because of this same reason)

When I checked my info the other day it told me I wasn't affected and didn't redirect me to the signup page. Same thing happened for a family member.

Considering how poorly they handled the data, this website may just be coded in an exceptionally poor way.

 

[Hui]

Try putting anything in right now.

Try

Dienull
654321

or Jones

ANY Jones. lol.