If you have already submitted a claim in the Equifax data breach settlement, you are far from alone. More than 15 million claims had been received by Dec. 1, according to court documents. Haven’t ...

NEW YORK -- Equifax, one of the three main credit reporting companies, said this week that a major data breach exposed Social Security numbers and other important information of millions of people.

The former chairman and CEO of Equifax says the company was entrusted with personal information of 140 million Americans and "we let them down" as human error and ...

Back in July 2017, credit reporting giant Equifax learned its database had been hacked and sensitive information on nearly 150 million Americans stolen. That information included names, addresses, ...

Sometimes a data breach results in more than an email and a few free months of credit monitoring. In September, Facebook began paying out claims from 2023’s massive $725 million privacy settlement, ...

After the year Equifax has had, you’d think the Atlanta-based credit-reporting agency would have mastered its messaging by now, but a stunning admission offered recently by a top executive illustrates ...

Millions of AT&T customers can file claims worth up to $7,500 in cash payments as part of a $177 million settlement related to data breaches in 2024.The telecommunications company had faced a pair of ...