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The best step to take: a credit freeze -- instructing credit reporting agencies to stop anyone from accessing your credit information, as they would to offer you a new credit card, for instance.

Angela Lang/CNET If you've been affected by the 2017 Equifax data breach, you have a choice to make -- get a $125 payout or 10 years of free credit monitoring. The problem is, your $125 ...

The contract award comes as Equifax is under fire in Washington for a security lapse that exposed sensitive financial information belonging to 145.5 million Americans, and more than three weeks ...

Equifax data breach: Find out if you were one of 143 million hacked. This breach of personal data potentially affects a vast number of people in the US, UK and Canada.

By the time a company tells you your data's been stolen as part of a breach, your login credentials may already be on the dark web. Here's how to keep pace with the hackers. December 16, 2019 1:11 ...

Equifax's data breach by the numbers: The full breakdown. The credit-monitoring giant reveals exactly how much information was exposed in a massive data breach in 2017 that affected more than half ...

As if an Equifax data breach affecting more than 140 million customers wasn't unsettling enough, consumers must be doubly vigilant following news of the massive mishap, experts warn.

Equifax's stock, which had been up in regular trading, dropped more than 13 percent in after-hours trading following the announcement. This story was originally published a 2:25 p.m. PT.

Credit reporting firm Equifax reported a massive data breach on Thursday, which could affect some 143 million US consumers, the company said in a press release.Attackers gained access through a ...

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BRISBANE, Calif. - Bebe Stores Inc. said Friday that it recently detected suspicious activity on computers that run the payment processing system used for its stores, making it the latest company ...

On top of that, credit card companies have said, if the new card reader technology hasn't been adopted by October 2015, if there's fraud, the retailer is responsible."

Equifax's third quarter earnings revealed that the company lost $87.5 million dealing with its recent data breach, which may have led to a profit loss of 27% over Q3 2016.

Equifax to pay up to $700 million for 2017 data breach. Settlement terms say that alternative $125 reimbursement claims will be paid from a $31 million "bucket." If there are enough claims to ...

Macy's online stores were hit with a data breach. SOPA Images Some Macy's online customers became victims of data theft, including their credit card numbers, following a breach in the retailer's ...

Telstra speaks out on data, advertising, and user privacy. Telstra has denied claims that it shares personal customer information from its 100-point ID checks with advertisers to better target ads.

You're running out of time to submit your Equifax data breach claim -- here's how. You still have time to file your FTC claim for the Equifax data breach affected 147 million people.

Folks in Canada and the UK have also been affected. ... Lieu is requesting that Congress call representatives from Equifax, TransUnion and Experian, the "big three" credit monitoring agencies, to ...

Capital One Financial's offices in San Francisco. Stephen Shankland/CNET A data breach to Capital One servers in March exposed the personal information of nearly 106 million of the bank's ...

Epsilon, an email marketing service provider, suffered a data breach last week and the apologies from its big-name customers keep belatedly pouring in. This breach will show what an email breach ...

AT&T warns 1,600 customers of data breach. An employee failed to follow the company's privacy policy and obtained some customer information, AT&T says.

Marriott said Tuesday that hotel guests' names, loyalty account information and other personal details may have been accessed in the second major data breach to hit the company in less than two years.

An unauthorized person was able to access the login credentials of a number of accounts with the hosting company. Web hosting provider and domain registrar GoDaddy was hit by a data breach that ...

Delta Heads-up: If you bought plane tickets from Delta, tools from Sears or household goods from Kmart between Sep. 26 and Oct. 12 last year -- and you did it online -- your name, address and ...

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Yahoo data breach: How to file for $358 or more as part of claim settlement. That email Yahoo sent you is legit. If you had a Yahoo account between 2012 and 2016, you could be eligible for a ...

That included guests' names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, Starwood Preferred Guest account information, dates of birth, genders, reservation dates and more.

For about 327 million of that number, the compromised information includes data such as names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, Starwood Preferred Guest account ...

Nearly 5 million DoorDash accounts were hacked, the popular food-delivery startup announced on Thursday. Door Dash said it suffered a data breach in May that affected 4.9 million accounts, it said ...

Log Out. Insider data breach survey finds directors most likely to break company policy ... and this is a toxic combination for data protection efforts," Pepper said. ... Managers are much more ...

Capital One data breach impacts more than 100 million customers. The hacker got information including credit scores and balances plus the Social Security numbers of about 140,000 customers.

Quest Diagnostics, the world's largest blood-testing company, said Monday that nearly 12 million patients may have had personal information exposed in a data breach.

Uber breach leaked personal data on 57M users, and they deliberately covered it up by Brandon Vigliarolo in Security on November 22, 2017, 6:38 AM PST

Welcome to the 2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame. Getty Images The biggest recurrent motif among the major data breaches of 2019 wasn't the black-hooded hacker in a dark room, digging into a screen ...

The hotel group said information exposed may include names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and birthdays as well as loyalty account details and information like room preferences.

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