re: Thank you Equifax for exposing all of our social security numbers and other private data

And several executives sold stock before this became public. Crooks.

All it did was give me an enrollment date?

I really need to stop being lazy and start using a password manager.

Also, I know I ought to give up my yahoo email account, but I've had it since 2000...

It took a bit of digging, but Trusted ID is owned by Equifax. They bought them in 2013 LINK

In this day and age you can get your credit score/report monthly for free. A lot of credit card companies, mint, quicken, etc will alert you if there’s something new on your credit report

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Adding to the scandal, three of the company's top executives sold Equifax shares just days after the breach was discovered. The breach was not publicly disclosed until Thursday, more than six weeks later.

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Those guys can rot in prison

I just ran both mine and my wife's info and it tells you if your data was part of the hack. Neither of ours was. So 175 mil were released but not ours. I'm going to buy some lottery tickets.

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And several executives sold stock before this became public. Crooks

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Link?

Eta, nevermind.

One comment i saw is that a top executive supposedly not knowing about this breach is almost worse than the insider trading itself. I agree

It tells you before the enrollment date whether you were part of the hack

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And several executives sold stock before this became public. Crooks.

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It's common for execs to set up trading plans to sell predetermined numbers of shares on a schedule. As you can't predict adverse events like this one, it's also common for these sales to occur near in time to a scandal. People always flip out and accuse them of wrongdoing, but unless you can show it was an unscheduled sale, and further, they knew about the bad news, it amounts to nothing. It would be stupid for them to take advantage, because they'd likely go to jail.

ETA: This could be fun to watch.

LINK

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Three executives - the CFO, the president of US Information Solutions, and the president of Workforce Solutions - sold roughly $1.8 million worth of shares in the days after the breach was discovered, and the sales were not listed as part of pre-set trading plans. If there is any evidence that these executives knew about the incident when they sold, losing their jobs could be the least of their worries.

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