No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
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Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#2With this Equifax hack, is it feasible this info release could endanger the lives of people?
Specifically, having current address info released for people who that could go badly for. eg ex-partners of violent people, maybe law enforcement (?) people, etc
If that's the case, then the fallout (and scrambling-to-relocate by people endangered) from it could be even more massive then so far mentioned. :/
Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#3I entered my real information and they said I was not impacted (but still asked me to sign up for TrustedID). The same for my wife. I tried it again today to make sure the answer didn't change and it's the same as yesterday.
Here's the message I got:
Based on the information provided, we believe that your personal information was not impacted by this incident.
Click the button below to continue your enrollment in TrustedID Premier.
Maybe if they can't make a positive match against their "safe" list, they give the warning.
They seem to be matching on SSN alone, I entered a completely different last name, and still was told that I'm not impacted, so maybe no one with the last 6 digits of my SSN was impacted.
Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#4With this Equifax hack, is it feasible this info release could endanger the lives of people? Specifically, having current address info released for people who that could go badly for. eg ex-partners of violent people, maybe law enforcement (?) people, etc If that's the case, then the fallout (and scrambling-to-relocate by people endangered) from it could be even more massive then so far mentioned. :/
There are plenty of ways to look up credit report information, I don't think this hack is going to add a significant new risk.
Though it'd be nice if this caused new data privacy and protection regulations. (But it won't)
Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#5With this Equifax hack, is it feasible this info release could endanger the lives of people? Specifically, having current address info released for people who that could go badly for. eg ex-partners of violent people, maybe law enforcement (?) people, etc If that's the case, then the fallout (and scrambling-to-relocate by people endangered) from it could be even more massive then so far mentioned. :/
There are plenty of ways to look up credit report information, I don't think this hack is going to add a significant new risk. Though it'd be nice if this caused new data privacy and protection regulations. (But it won't)
Cool. :)
Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#6So, this basically is a way for Equifax to get a mass waiver from people to make a class action lawsuit less damaging to the company. Opting out of the waiver is a long winded process of mailing a form. another funny thing is that if you sign up for their crappy product, you have to come back on a different day and complete the sign up. There wont be emails or notifications. If you forget to signup, then you have basically waived your rights to sue to company.
For every SSN entered, Equifax can say in a class action lawsuit that they have waivers from all the following SSNs ....
IANAL, but this looks like a sensible strategy for Equifax to save itself after screwing with people's SSNs and personal info.
Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#7 considering all this information has been leaked, how on earth would they expect the people entering in their credentials to be the actual people who own the SSN!
with regards to giving up their right to class action
Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#8So basically Equifax now is engaging in fraud on massive scale. It needs to be dealt with the same way as we dealt with this company called Arthur Anderson.
Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#9Even if the information they returned was correct, do you trust them enough to enter your SSN and name anymore? Surely they will be hacked again and you will be impacted by the next hack.
1. Enter SSN
2a. Impacted by this hack
2b. Not impacted by this hack but will be impacted by next
Re: No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
#10So, this basically is a way for Equifax to get a mass waiver from people to make a class action lawsuit less damaging to the company. Opting out of the waiver is a long winded process of mailing a form. another funny thing is that if you sign up for their crappy product, you have to come back on a different day and complete the sign up. There wont be emails or notifications. If you forget to signup, then you have bas…
Are you saying that merely by seeing if you were impacted, you are waiving your rights, even if you don't come back on the scheduled day to complete the enrollment? That sounds ridiculous. Nowhere in the simple form that they provided is there any mention of waiving any rights. Nor is there one of those standard checkboxes about "I accept the terms.." when filling out that little form.