Tag: credit reports

**This post contains affiliate links and the publisher may be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on these links.**   On July 22, 2019 the civil settlement of the Equifax data breach in 2017 was announced.  As was reported in the fall of 2017, including in our article here, Equifax, one of the major 3 credit bureaus, suffered a data breach that exposed personal information on over 140 million Americans.  This is more than half the adults in the United States, so if you're not sure if you've one of those affected, odds are slightly better than not that your data was exposed, but there is now a definitive way to know if your personal information was exposed.   Key Things to Know The first thing to determine is whether you're eligible for a remedy in the settlement, because your data was exposed in the breach.  To find out, you can go to this website: https://eligibility.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/en/eligibility.  You will need to enter your last name...