Take 20 Minutes to Protect Yourself from the Equifax Data Breach
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll talk about the Equifax data breach from 2017 and the steps you should do to make sure your data is safe. Last year, Equifax revealed that they had had a data security breach and that criminals has obtained very private data — like social security numbers, birth dates, and drivers license numbers — from almost 150 million people. That is almost half of the people in the United States. Even though you may have never voluntarily done business with Equifax, they most likely have all of your data because they are one of the 3 big credit reporting agencies. That means every time you open up a line of credit, they are the company that sends the detailed credit report showing that you are a good credit risk — or not. So, what does this mean? It means that the criminals who stole that data can now use your private information in order to open up new lines of cred...