Equifax Data Breach Settlement Update | How You Can Claim $125 if Affected

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   Laura July 23, 2019 at 8:36 am MST

   How can you find out if you were affected?

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  Lorrie Dickson July 23, 2019 at 8:43 am MST

  Following

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  shannon July 23, 2019 at 8:45 am MST

  Yes, I was wondering as well.

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  Kim July 23, 2019 at 8:52 am MST

  Same.

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  Amber (Hip Sidekick) July 23, 2019 at 8:59 am MST

  Hi there! You can find out if your information has been impacted once the Claims Site goes live. They will provide a tool to use in order to check.

  Hope that helps!

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  Laurie July 23, 2019 at 11:34 am MST

  Hopefully H2S will post when it goes live and how to Ck if you were affected.

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  Amber (Hip Sidekick) July 23, 2019 at 11:44 am MST

  You bet! Thanks for the request, Laurie! I’ll be sure to pass that along to the team!

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  lenin1991 July 24, 2019 at 10:40 am MST

  You can check here: https://eligibility.equifaxbreachsettlement.online/en/eligibility

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   R July 23, 2019 at 8:54 am MST

   Wouldn’t some people still possibly be affected in the future by this breach but may not be affected right now? Considering the information could be used at a later date. Just thinking.

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  Melissaan July 23, 2019 at 9:05 am MST

  I’m thinking the same exact thing. The thieves have all the pertinent information to open accounts in your name at any time they wish, or to sell your information to others who may do so. Equifax accepted money from customers for the precise purpose of protecting their data. Equifax totally failed. When they discovered the breach they sat on the information, not notifying their customers. They continued to charge them for fake monitoring. I at least want all the money I paid them for years of fake “protection”. And free 10 years of monitoring? Do they think we are stupid? They should be paying us so we can pay honest monitoring services.

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   Maggie July 23, 2019 at 8:59 am MST

   To make a claim (for up to $20,000) you apparently have to show that THIS breach caused YOUR identity theft issue. That’s apparently impossible because the Equifax data has never been sold on the dark web — it’s believed by experts to be a state-level intrusion by a foreign government. That part of the settlement is hyperspace that no one will ever be able to reach, from what I’ve been reading in legal analysis of the settlement.

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   Brandy July 23, 2019 at 9:36 am MST

   I am not seeing a link to see if were affected.

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  Amber (Hip Sidekick) July 23, 2019 at 9:58 am MST

  Hi Brandy! It appears you will need to wait for the Claims Site to go live, and then you will be able to use the tool provided to check. Hoping that helps!

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   Renee July 23, 2019 at 10:08 am MST

   I would suggest for everyone to freeze their credit (kids too) It’s now free on all 3 credit bureaus. If you freeze your credit no one can steal your identity. It’ll take an extra step when you apply for credit, but so worth it!

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  di July 23, 2019 at 11:12 am MST

  I was just thinking the same thing. Good suggestion!

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  Rachel July 23, 2019 at 11:22 am MST

  Yes freeze all 3 bureaus just to be safe. It only takes a few minutes to temporarily lift it when you need to apply for something.

  I forgot I had them freezes and was able to lift them for a few days span in minutes at a store.

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   D July 23, 2019 at 12:07 pm MST

   How do you freeze 🥶 it

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  Gina G. July 23, 2019 at 1:52 pm MST

  Yes, how do you freeze them?

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  pokpok July 23, 2019 at 3:05 pm MST

  U put all your cc in a container..fill in with water…then put in the freezer… your welonlinee..

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  Kate July 23, 2019 at 3:19 pm MST

  You can look it up individually at all the three major credit card onlinepanies websites. When I did it, equifax was free (as they should be after this fiasco) but I had to pay around $15 for each of the other two. They give you a code to unfreeze when you need to unfreeze. Do NOT lose the code. We did this for my husband and I and it was fairly easy. I just recently unfroze my account for a few days and that was really easy too.

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  Tori July 23, 2019 at 7:05 pm MST

  It’s actually free now as a result of a Federal law change due to the EquiFax breach.

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   Krista July 23, 2019 at 3:11 pm MST

   So, someone in HR where my dad works onlinepromised employee info through a phishing scam (great HR, huh?). Anyway, they singed everyone up for this monitoring as a courtesy. Now they’ve all been told their info was onlinepromised AGAIN. My dad is old school and so angry. I, on the other hand, find it pretty ironic that the Equifax monitoring was setup to protect them and now this! HA!

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  Tori July 23, 2019 at 7:07 pm MST

  Yeah. Just tell him to freeze his credit. At this point it’s the only thing you can do to try to protect yourself.

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   M July 23, 2019 at 10:15 pm MST

   As someone who did have their identity stolen, I reonlinemend Lifelock. They’ve caught numerous new credit card attempts, loan attempts, and even caught my email being shared on the dark web 😱

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   Suzanne July 23, 2019 at 11:25 pm MST

   I’m very careful with my credit information and about 6 weeks after the breech I got a change of address in the mail saying that my address had been changed to Florida when I live in Kansas. From there I found out that they tried to reroute my mail so they could get a new credit card sent to them. They also tried opening 7 different credit cards and I’ve had multiple other problems. I called the police department in Florida and they told me that there was nothing they could do because they use hoax addresses. I asked them to check it out because there was a credit card of mine headed that way, they didn’t. I also called the post office down there over 30 times and I only got people to answer twice and they just hung up on me. I called my local post office and they put their internal investigation crew on it. I had to stop the change of address but it had already gone through the system so all the onlinepanies that use the change of address information to update your information already changed my address as well. Including Costco who sent my new card and rebate checks to Florida. The post office said that someone had hand written the change of address form and turned it in. I asked the police department in Florida if that was a federal offence since it was in a post office. They told me the only way they could take action if they walked into a bank and tried to cash a check or something similar. I had to get a local police report to get the bureaus to freeze my credit for free even though my local city had no jurisdiction and couldn’t do anything about it. I opened a claim with the federal government and continued to update my case and it went absolutely nowhere. I’ve talked to many credit card onlinepanies to shut down the false credit cards and I’ve put extra passwords on all the credit cards I currently have did that they can’t get through to change anything. I’ve been told multiple times that the theifs will stop for a little while until you think you’re in the clear and will either try again or sell your information to someone else. It has been a total headache and nightmare. A measly $125 is nothing for the time and energy I’ve had to put into all of this. When it first happened I checked their site and it said I could have been onlinepromised but it said my husband wasn’t. What a nightmare this has been. Lock down your credit. It’s not worth it. As others have said, lock your kids’ credit as well.

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    pokpok July 24, 2019 at 9:26 am MST

    Sign up is now open!!!

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  Amber (Hip Sidekick) July 24, 2019 at 9:40 am MST

  Oh great! Thanks so much for the heads up!

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