Equifax Data Breach

In present date data breach statistics is coming into light at wide level at Equifax. It has been reported that a large number of financial industries and organizations has been affected owing to the troublesome occurrence of data breach.

A declaration was made by Equifax about having the experience of being interfered by criminals who succeeded in making theft of sensitive information comprising the names, addresses, social security numbers and dates of birth.

The important thing is that Equifax consumers need to know that whether they are affected or not. Under the circumstances, if you find that your sensitive information has been exposed then it would be better for you to have decision regarding the putting a freeze on your credit.  Such initiative will prove helpful in preventing the unauthorized access to your important data.

To implement the decision of putting a freeze on your credit, you will be required to make contact with credit reporting agency.

Data breach is, of course, an annoying and disappointing occurrence for the company so in case of getting victimized, Equifax consumers are advised to have a look at the mail. As the company sends mail directly to consumers whose credit card number has got affected.

In addition to this, consumers should try to keep themselves updated. With an intention of keeping the victimized consumers updated, Company has created resources to provide support to their consumers. This incorporates the availability of online information and also the Equifax  customer service number.

The data breach may be prevented by executing some defensive steps that include the utilization of secure websites, creating a strong and secure password by inserting the special characters. One thing is also necessary that need to be noticed, and that is to check out that whether your computer and mobile devices are running the recently introduced version or not. In addition to all these, keep watching online and monthly financial account statements to be updated with transaction accuracy.

Equifax consumers also keep a watching eye over their credit reports to be sure that it has not been accessed by hackers in your name.