Equifax Announced that 143,000,000 of their Files have been Hacked

This hacking of Equifax can cause serious problems for you. Although this hack was discovered by Equifax July 29^th, the actual hacking happened between Mid-May through July this year!

Here is what you should do to protect yourselves from having your credit damaged by these hackers…

1)      Go to www.Equifaxsecurity2017.com to check the potential impact of your files being part of the hack.

2)      Get a free credit report. Federal law guarantees your one free credit report per year from the three major bureaus (yes, including Equifax). Head to this website to get your most-recent credit report and evaluate it to find any malicious activity. Look for unknown accounts, strange addresses reporting and especially review all inquiries. You can go to any other site that gives you a report from all three bureaus.

3)      Set a fraud alert. Anyone can sign up for a free, 90-day fraud alert. The FTC has information on how to do that here. Be sure to list a phone contact number.

4)      Freeze your credit. Credit freezes make it harder for criminals to open credit cards in your name. You'll need to call each of the credit bureaus -- Equifax (1-800-349-9960), Experian (1‑888‑397‑3742) and TransUnion (1-888-909-8872) -- to freeze your credit. Understand that doing this will make it harder for you to apply for credit. If you want to do so you will have to contact the bureaus with your pin number and pay a small fee to unlock your credit.

5)      Pull your credit report once every 6 months to ensure there are not any future problems.

6)      Equifax has offered to sign you up for their monitoring service free for one year. If you do this be aware that you will be forced to go through binding arbitration is you want to sue later and can’t become part of a class action suit. If you want a separate monitoring service, you can use this link to get a $10.00 per month discount on Identity IQ.  http://bit.ly/2pdLvxy   

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