Equifax Data Breach

My wife qualified but I didn't. We're signing up for the credit monitoring since we don't have one already.

Didn’t add on another 10 hours to get $375?

So, i can expect my $125 in about 3 or 4 years, right?

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Site is legit?

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Yep.

You can see it tagged at the top of Equifax's main site here: LINK

I signed up for identity theft monitoring in Oct, 2017. Seems like I should get more than $125 when it cost $200 a year.

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Don't know if any of you folks have looked into this, but Equifax is supposedly in good position to settle this class-action suit where 147 million people had their information exposed by hackers breaching Equifax's mainframe. You can file a claim on this website if you were one of the 147 million: LINK Either free credit monitoring or $125 bucks per person that qualifies. I qualified, but oddly my wife didn't. So I'm waiting for my $125.

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You don’t get $125 unless you already had credit monitoring services that will continue for the next 6 months. In my case I was in their system from years ago but don’t currently have credit monitoring. So all I got out of it is free credit monitoring.

There’s a finite pot of money for the settlement. If you read the fine print, it’s says you can get UP TO $125.

If the amount of claims is high, which it will likely be given all the press it’s getting, you are going to get much less. I’d be shocked if people got $50.

The value of the 4 years of credit monitoring, plus the one bureau credit monitoring for another six years, is worth over $1000.

It was a no brainer for me: take the monitoring.