It’s second nature to lock your doors before leaving the house, or before going to bed. That’s because you want to help protect yourself, your family and your valuables — especially while you’re not ...

Your financial life may be negatively affected by a company that, until recently, you may well have never heard of, or only been dimly aware of. Earlier this month, Equifax announced that hackers may ...

Most people who have frozen their credit files with Equifax have been issued a numeric Personal Identification Number (PIN) which is supposed to be required before a freeze can be lifted or thawed.

When you shop through retailer links on our site, we may earn affiliate commissions. 100% of the fees we collect are used to support our nonprofit mission. Learn more. Consumers hurt by the 2017 ...

Like millions of other people, I freaked out a little last week when I learned that my personal information "may have been impacted" by the Equifax breach. Thieves got the mother load of data, which ...

My twin sister Alita and I have a credit problem: not because we’ve defaulted on loans or skipped bills, but because the US credit rating agencies can’t seem to tell us apart. Sometimes they associate ...

Consumers affected by Equifax’s huge data breach in 2017 may need to re-establish protections on their credit report if they “locked” their files as part of the company’s free credit-monitoring offer.

Hackers stole more data from Equifax in a breach last year than initially thought. The hack became the largest single data breach reported in 2017. But documents seen by members of the Senate Banking ...

Most people who have frozen their credit files with Equifax have been issued a numeric Personal Identification Number (PIN) which is supposed to be required before a freeze can be lifted or thawed.