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Equifax Data Breach Liability


Washington, DC: Equifax Inc, is facing several lawsuits over its recent and enormous data breach, which affects nearly half of the population in the US.

One of the largest data breaches in US history, the credit reporting agency only revealed in September that hackers had accessed about 143 million US consumers’ names, Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information on its servers between May and July.

Lawsuits have been filed by consumers in Georgia and Oregon and more are sure to follow. The New York Attorney General’s Office has also launched its own investigation.

The plaintiffs in the Georgia class action allege a host of injuries that they have or are likely to suffer as a direct result of the breach. These include costs associated with the detection and prevention of identity theft and unauthorized use of their financial accounts, damages arising from the inability to use their PII and access to their account funds, the loss of their privacy, and potential fraud and identify theft posed by their PII being placed in the hands of criminals.

The lawsuit was filed in Atlanta federal district court, just hours after Equifax alerted the public about the data breach, seeks statutory damages under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Plaintiffs are accusing Equifax of having “acted willfully and recklessly because it knew or should have known about its legal obligations regarding data security and data breaches under the FCRA.”

Consumers in the Oregon class action are claiming that at least one plaintiff had already purchased third-party credit monitoring services and requested that Equifax "provide fair compensation in an amount that will ensure every consumer harmed by its data breach will not be out-of-pocket for the costs of independent third-party credit repair and monitoring services."

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Published on Sep-11-17

EQUIFAX DATA BREACH LEGAL ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS

Equifax Breach Led to Real Life Problems says Class Action
Equifax Breach Led to Real Life Problems says Class Action
October 27, 2017
Atlanta, GA: Lead plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed in US District Court in Atlanta claim it was the Equifax breach between May and July 2017 that led to real life problems after their personal and private information was snatched from the credit reporting agency’s data bank and then allegedly used by criminals for illegal purposes. READ MORE

Attorney Files Equifax Class Action Lawsuit
Attorney Files Equifax Class Action Lawsuit
September 25, 2017
San Jose, CA: In the wake of an Equifax data breach that occurred in July but reported this September, attorneys at Oakland, California- based Scott Cole & Associates have filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against the credit reporting agency. This digital disaster could potentially affect up to 175 million Americans, and millions of people worldwide, including the U.K. and Canada. READ MORE

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Dispute: On April 8, 2019, we wrote a letter informing agency the bank wrongly submitted data concern our Home Equity Loan purchased from Wachovia Bank which was switched to Wells Fargo Bank. We were complaining because the bank continued calling our loan a mortgage it was not a mortgage, instead was a Home Equity loan; we wanted correct in our credit files. The agent also confused our FHA Loan with another Home owner loan. All Equifax had to do was reveal this data with the bank, it was in our files.
Equifax refused to change data errors submitted by Wells Fargo to its agency.
In 2019, proof of the fact already existed in our Equifax. Experian, and Trans union Credit Bureau files, although was continued overlooked. However, we have these document in our possession.
Wells Fargo submitted to credit bureaus we took out three mortgage loans, Re-finance, Conventional, and Home Mortgage. Not true, We have signed one Home Mortgage loan and that was In 1978, with FHA that mortgage loan paid in full in 2004, We would appreciate if the credit bureaus change and document this information correctly. We purchased a Home Equity Loan, not a mortgage. We requested Equifax correct the mistake in our information in 2019, never occurred.

Second complaint, Equifax have refused to send our Credit Reports since 2019, we’ve submitted three letters since then, last excuse was we changed address.
Nevertheless, the other credit bureaus have our banking information with the new address quite sure Equifax has to, we didn’t reveal updated information to these agencies.
Lately, we filed a complaint against Equifax with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The response from Equifax was: send identification in the mail such as, Driver licensing, utility bills, and Deed to property. Ok remember this is the agent who was previously charged with breaching citizens data.
Thirdly, Our data was breached we submitted claims no compensation. 10/23/2019

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I was informed that my social and the socials of my children were affected by the Equifax data breach. I am still fighting to have false information deleted from our Equifax file.

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I have cleaned many credit reports for people up. And I have to say Equifax is the worse and will lie to you and give you the runaround no matter what. The violate the FCRA constantly. And they don't care cause they have tons of money they make from selling our information and one person is not enough to bother them . Ive seen them take and remove stuff and put it back on there when they know its even false. Years there were these 2 ladies in NY i think same namesz middke intials different they combines combined there information and scrwed the credit up. They were lucky thonand got paid 2.5 millions each or so. See if we dont fight them then they continue to do what they want. And how can a buruea expect you tonprove a debt is notnl yours with paperwork if its not yours. You wouldnt believe the stuff ive seen them do.

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all my stuff was breached due to Equifax,Experance,an face book.life lock told me an Norton they keep hacking my things an my stuff was put on the dark web

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Equifax should have informed everyone of this they have so much negative stuff on my report that is wrong and should be removed but it’s like pulling teeth to get them to fix it

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The credit bureau, seem like they are really against people who are trying to improve their credit.This is preposterous Who can we trust these days? Who can we trust in this time and age??? It's always something...

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My my, I want to share that I had my credit cleaned and to date Equifax, still has me with negative inaccurate data. I have contacted them endlessly .. to no avail. I feel this Equifax does not receive accurate information. The sources are horrid.

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My information was totally exposed and put my credit score below . I had my credit fixed by Lexington Law and now I get this message that my credit score has decreased. Thought Lexington Law was on my side.

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I personally do not think it's right that they did not and had not contacted everyone affected by this breach that they brought on themselves. Had I not looked into my name and my mother's also neither one of had known we were a part of this. How can that be legal? Since then at that time later on we find out driver's licenses and other personal information could and has been exposed. This breach was brought on by them and they should be held accountable for each and every person affected by their practices. How do we really know where we are floating around on the black market? What if they commit a crime using your identity, then what?

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Equifax is not my intro to identity theft, unfortunately. I am understanding of a data breach. These are my major issues with EQUIFAX. 1. Breach happened months before public was informed unintentionally. 2. rule number of one of data breaches is to act immediately. if not all of the evidence can be gone in a heartbeat. 3. I found out out about Equifax breach via news in September.. 4. Equifax notified me of my information and the breach by USPS in NOVEMBER!!!!! THAT IS RIDICULOUS!!!!! especially from one of the THREE CONSUMER REPORTING BUREAUS. Why the super super delay in informing the consumers? Where is the accountability? Letter also did not inform consumers of the complimentary identity monitoring service, nor was there any form of apology. PERIOD.

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I think when you trying to apply for a loan they still have bills that you have paid off it never be dropped or taken off so your credit score never improve.

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Info an credit info expose

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My personal information was used on my amx card after the breach.

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Equifax is the worst agency for accuracy on credit reports, fails to completely investigate disputes filed by consumers or make corrections when consumers provided proof of payment of negative accounts on their reports, always offers it's "credit monitoring" services for free when it does admit to screwing up.
They make their money on these services so it seems that they allow breaches and other credit reporting errors in order to promote their main product. I am sure many of those that used their service for free after a breach at Equifax continued to purchase the service thinking it would protect them in the future which it won't. Equifax counts on consumers thinking this protects them and makes millions of dollars from these useless services. Accurately reporting your credit and protecting your personal information is the least of their concerns. They should be put out of business and made to pay consumers for all the trouble they have caused and the risks they have placed on consumers financial accounts! Plus they are focused on reporting negative accounts but rarely

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I was informed that I was breached

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I have been waiting for this to happen ,This is a Credit reporting Bureau .That reports half truth .I,m 62 years old ,and i have never noticed the reporting of Gas bills ,Light bills ,Cable bills .Bills like the above are ,and should be part of Credit report ,but its not WHY .To call yourself a Credit reporting bureau [ means to report all credit .Also anyone can get on your credit report an say you owe them [ no one checks ]

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