Are you American? The Equifax leak

[mme_hardy]

Equifax just leaked personal info including any or all of birthdates, addresses, Social Security numbers, and/or credit card information for roughly half the adult population.

No.  Really.

To check if you were affected, go here:

https://trustedidpremier.com/eligibility/enroll.html

If you get a date back, you *were* affected; set yourself a calendar reminder to go back to the site on the appropriate date and register for ... something yet to be determined. 

Equifax has known about this since July 29th.  The CFO and two other senior executives sold big chunks of stock three days later.

Comments

[moetushie]

Well, this fucking blows.

[mme_hardy]

It certainly does.

[redbird]

I think I want to read that "registration" carefully: Equifax might be hoping to slip in an agreement that all claims against them go to arbitration to avoid a class action lawsuit.

Right now, the victims in general have no contractual relationship w

Even if a class action isn't feasible, they could be facing millions of individual lawsuits: given the numbers involved, if 1% of the people affected either are lawyers, or have lawyers in their immediate families, that's a million potential suits. (And now I'm wondering about small claims courts.)

[mme_hardy]

Excellent point about the registration.

[batwrangler]

This is the second time (at least) they've had major problems. Grrr. IIrc, a couple of years ago they, or one of their subsidiaries, actually *sold* data to a hacker ... Ugh, Big Data.

[armiphlage]

CAUTION!

A WhoIs search of trustedidpremier.com shows it is NOT owned by Equifax.
Googling does not show a link from Equifax's website, but does show a link from EquifaxSecurity2017.com

A WhoIs search of equifaxsecurity2017.com shows it is NOT owned by EquiFax.
A WhoIs search of equifax.com shows that it IS owned by EquiFax.

[mme_hardy]

Equifax.com links to EquifaxSecurity2017.com from its home page. Equifaxsecurity2017.com links to https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/trustedid-premier/ which links to equifaxsecurity2017.com/enroll.

https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/enroll/ links to https://trustedidpremier.com/eligibility/eligibility.html

Unless Equifax.com's home page has been hacked (possible), equifaxsecurity2017.com is legit. Unless equi...2017.com has been hacked (also possible) trusteditdpremier.com is legit.

[mme_hardy]

The link from Equifax.com to EquifaxSecurity2017.com is in the red bar at the top of the page, labeled "click here".

[laurashapiro]

Holy motherforking shirtballs.

[julian]

The stock selling dudes are a wee bit transparent...

Since they're not actually telling us much for the moment, I'm going to wait to sign up until they have some more of their shit together.

[oracne]

Joy. Not.