WASHINGTON ― The credit monitoring company that compromised the personal information of nearly half the U.S. population said Monday it won’t ask people for credit card info if they sign up for its “free” service. To make up for its massive cybersecurity failure, the firm said it would give victims a free one-year subscription to its credit monitoring service. There was a catch: the supposedly free service required credit card information up front and would begin charging the card after the free trial ended unless users proactively canceled, according to terms of use for the product dated Sept. 6. “We are not requesting consumers’ credit card information when they sign up for the free credit file monitoring and identity theft protection we are offering to all U.S. consumers,” the company said in a statement. The rule is set to take effect this month but Republicans in Congress have said they want to overturn it.

Source: Huffington Post September 11, 2017 16:04 UTC