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How the Equifax data breach impacts your identity and what you can do about it
In what some are saying is the worst data leak in U.S. history, Equifax announced on September 7, 2017, that criminals infiltrated its database and ripped off personal information for 143 million individuals. The data breach included social security numbers, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, credit card numbers, and a host of other personal…
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Change your password immediately if you have a Yahoo account
In an announcement on September 22, 2016, Yahoo disclosed the news that criminals stole account information for more than 500 million users from its systems in late 2014. While the company doesn’t believe financial information was included in that data breach, it does state, “account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates…