Consumer Reports says, "A massive data breach at Equifax compromised sensitive data for nearly half of all U.S. consumers — including names, social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and the numbers of some driver's licenses. Hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers were also compromised. Now millions of Americans could be at risk for identity theft.
To make matters worse, Equifax responded by sending consumers to a website where, by signing up for credit monitoring services, they could waive their legal rights to ever take Equifax to court, for any problem.” Paul Ringsmuth > On Sep 8, 2017, at 7:51 PM, Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2017, at 4:23 PM,Chip Scheide wrote: > >> I find the idea that it is necessary to implement PCI ironic, when >> Equifax just lost the SS numbers, and other personal data of over >> 140,000,000 people. > > I checked the website they published and it says my information was stolen. > So now I have to wait until 9/12/17 and then go back to the website and > enroll in their free identity theft coverage. > > The company that reports how good your credit is will now be the one that > destroys your credit rating. And there’s nothing you can do about it. Isn’t > this nice. > > Tim > > ******************************************** > Tim Nevels > Innovative Solutions > 785-749-3444 > [email protected] > ******************************************** > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
