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Do you know of Equifax ?
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1st Nov 2017 5:37pm
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I had a letter today from Equifax. A company I have never heard of previously. The letter informed me that my personal data had been accessed by hackers in May 2017... take immediate action to protect yourself. Firstly, having thrown the letter on one side and not attaching much importance to it (maybe touting for business), later today I decided to search this company. This link is what turned up, amongst other stuff. Now I want to know why this company holds my personal details, and who has either sold them on to these people or how on earth they have got them in the first place. It would seem I am not alone and another site indicates that 44milliom UK customers are on Equifax books ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41737241
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Re: Do you know of Equifax ?
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They said my details are ; Name; D.O.B.; and my telephone number; which could lead to scams. It's an American company though. I don't like these yanks holding all our information. I bet they've got our health records now too, since the rollout last year of 'sharing' that seemed to go undercover in the final few weeks, prior to being able to opt out. Also negative information introduced,(although it was a while ago) according to Wikipedia . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EquifaxRetail Credit Company's extensive information holdings, and its willingness to sell them to anyone, attracted criticism of the company in the 1960s and 1970s. These included that it collected "...facts, statistics, inaccuracies and rumors… about virtually every phase of a person's life; his marital troubles, jobs, school History, childhood, sex life, and political activities." The company was also alleged to reward its employees for collecting negative information on consumers.[10]
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Re: Do you know of Equifax ?
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2nd Nov 2017 10:32am
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Quite a number of letters received yesterday from all accounts. Having read more ,it is interesting to find that nobody could get through to them on the phone line yesterday, but even more interesting is that to put their (Equifax ) protection in place, we have to give many more personal details, and protection is not guaranteed . So the Money Saving Expert says there is a choice to be made. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/n...-helplines-struggling---heres-what-to-do
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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