Equifax Data Breach
Everyone has a credit score. Guess how the credit rating agencies come up with it. Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion are data brokers. They harvest your personal financial information and sell access to it. Sometimes that that starts before you’re even born.
Did you ask Equifax to spy on you to help banks and landlords make more money? Me neither! Too bad. They did it anyway, and then whoops, they leaked the data on 147 million Americans, exposing social security numbers and other information. That sparked a wave of identity theft.
Equifax denies any wrongdoing (I guess data breaches are an act of god). The good news is you can get a very small amount of money if you were or are victimized between January 23, 2020 and January 22, 2024. The future is bright!
You can file a claim here.
