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Equifax has been sending some consumers hit by its data breach wrong letters

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Dissent

The last thing they needed was more bad press, right?

Javier E. David of CNBC reports:

Equifax, which suffered a massive data breach in 2017 that exposed the personal information of nearly 150 million consumers, has been sending out erroneous notification letters to a “small percentage” of those affected, the company confirmed Monday.

Hackers breached the credit reporting agency’s records, exposing data belonging to millions of accounts monitored by Equifax. Since then, the company has been reaching out to people who were affected by the breach, offering free credit monitoring and other remediation efforts.

 Read more on CNBC.

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