5 things to do right now if you're worried about the Equifax hack

[USALiberal]

Summary, but more details about the steps at the link......

1. Check your free credit reports
2. Put a fraud alert on your credit
3. Keep an eye on bank accounts and credit card statements
4. Sign up for a credit monitoring or identity theft protection service
5. If you're really worried, put a freeze on your credit


http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/09/pf/what-to-do-equifax-hack/index.html

[msongs]

1. tell the CC companies not to issue any new cards. not sure how to do that tho nt

[CurtEastPoint]

3. You have to put a freeze on all 3 agencies. See...

http://clark.com/personal-finance-credit/credit-freeze-and-thaw-guide/

[cilla4progress]

2. Credit

Karma

[msongs]

4. just visited annualcreditreport pulled trans union all looks good but that site has

issues - equifax would run and experian said you had to write them by snail mail to order a copy

[customerserviceguy]

5. Did that

And am actively working to get creditors to stop using Equifax, those assholes need to be put out of business. Since creditors like banks, credit unions, American Express, etc., bear a large part of the cost of cyberfraud, they shouldn't be too hard to convince to cut Equifax loose. There will still be two redundant credit bureaus, who will have fear motivating their IT security expenditures vs. executive bonuses.