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Under terms of the settlement approved by a Georgia court Monday, Equifax may also have to pay an additional $125 million if the initial amount doesn't cover all the claims.
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Regulators have long warned the credit bureaus about deceptive marketing that causes consumers to sign up unwittingly for paid monitoring services. But the practice has persisted, according to complaint data.
October 20 -
Democratic lawmakers and consumer advocates say the remedies offered to consumers by firms like Capital One and Equifax are too difficult to access and not particularly helpful.
September 20 -
A year after the major credit bureaus agreed to strip tax liens and civil judgments from consumers' credit files, a new study says it is hampering lenders' credit decisions. But proponents of the move insist it was the right call.
September 3 -
At the same time, consumers hold banks to tougher disclosure standards than government agencies, health care organizations and retailers, according to Experian.
August 30 -
The Trump administration’s “public charge” rule would add credit reports to factors that could be used to deny legal residency, but critics say credit scoring was never intended for that purpose.
August 21 -
The Massachusetts Democrat is questioning a claim by the agency about the amount of redress available to those affected by the credit bureau's 2017 data breach.
August 14 -
Many businesses are not doing enough to protect their client sensitive PII information. They do not realize that internet and cloud services are not bullet-proof, says Pravin Kothari, founder and CEO of CipherCloud.
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A Fed team toured an Amazon facility at about the same time Capital One’s data was hacked; House oversight members want answers from the CEOs of the two companies.
August 2 -
The Federal Trade Commission just updated its website with disappointing news: No, you aren’t getting $125 because of the Equifax Inc. data breach.
August 1