Equifax has a website and hotline to handle customer questions about the breach, but it’s been criticized for being unclear and ill-equipped to deal with the volume of incoming queries. We need more information from Equifax other than your information was or possibly was accessed,” he said. “For individuals affected by this we recommend not signing up with Equifax monitoring services,” Pollard said. The suit was filed by Mary McHill from Portland and Brook Reinhard from Eugene on behalf of all those affected by the data breach. Blame Big Data | Jathan Sadowski Read more“Equifax knew and should have known that failure to maintain adequate technological safeguards would eventually result in a massive data breach,” states the complaint, obtained by Cyberscoop.

Source: The Guardian September 08, 2017 20:03 UTC