The US credit bureau Equifax, which suffered a hack in 2017 and lost 147 million customer data, is beginning to compensate victims, The Verge writes. Victims can file a class action lawsuit for $ 700 million, amounting to ...

Seattle resident Katie Van Fleet said her identity has been stolen more than a dozen times since the Equifax hack and data breach in early 2017. She decided to tell her story as a warning to others ...

President Donald Trump's administration is exploring options to replace the use of American Social Security Numbers (SSNs) as their primary identifier after a massive data breach from Equifax Inc. The White House has asked federal departments and agencies to investigate identifier use vulnerabilities, ...

The Democrats presented a bill that would allow freezing and unfreezing of their loans for free. Senator Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) and dozens of other Democrats have submitted a bill called the Equifax Exploitation Freedom Act that would ban credit bureaus such as ...

On Thursday, Equifax, the credit bureau, reported identity theft of 143 million Americans. This means that about 44% of US residents have had their personal card information or driver's license numbers and other forms of identification stolen. A similar story could have happened ...